#s3

We'd like to announce a new package available from the Soto project. Soto S3 File Transfer has been implemented to ease moving of files between your local file system and S3.It provides APIs for copying individual files from your local filesystem to S3, S3 back to your file system and from one S3…

One of the most common questions we get about Soto is "How do I pre-sign a URL for uploading to S3?". This is a common pattern where a server provides a pre-signed URL to a client. A pre-signed URL allows you to grant temporary access to a single file in an S3 bucket to someone who normally does…

S3 has a series of multipart upload operations. These can be used to upload an object to S3 in multiple parts. If your object is larger than 5GB you are required to use the multipart operations for uploading, but multipart also has the advantage that if one part fails to upload you don't need to…

When uploading or downloading large blocks of data it is preferable if you can stream this data instead of holding it all in memory. Soto supplies methods for streaming raw data payloads of both requests to AWS and responses from AWS. The most common use of this would be when uploading or…

Before you start you are going to need an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, an Identity and Access Management (IAM) user account and access key credentials. The credentials identify the user or role trying to access AWS resources. AWS provide enough