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AWS re:Invent has wrapped up for 2024, so in this post myself and my colleague Clive Li (that's us in the picture above!) will share our highlights from attending the event in Las Vegas. Alex Deep Diving into Infrastructure (AWS Nitro) My conference kicked off with EC2 Nitro...

Amazon S3 is a simple file storage solution that is great for storing content, but how well does it stack up when used as the storage mechanism for a web-based file explorer? Recently I was tasked with doing just this for a client. Furthermore, as opposed to the existing solution (which used CKFinder and synchronised copies of the files between our own server and the bucket), I needed to connect to an S3 bucket directly. In this post I'll talk about how we did it.