[Yanel-dev] Amazon S3 [WAS:[Fwd: [magnolia-user] DMS with S3]]

[Michael Wechner]

Hi

As pointed out in private conversation this requirement seems to pop up 
more often recently and I think it would
be nice if Yanel would support something like this.

Cheers

Michi

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Betreff: 	[magnolia-user] DMS with S3
Datum: 	Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:28:15 +0100
Von: 	Joshua Portway <josh at stain.org>
Antwort an: 	Magnolia User-List <user-list at magnolia-cms.com>
An: 	Magnolia Users <user-list at magnolia.info>



Has anyone tried to set up a system whereby the DMS uses Amazon S3 to  
store and serve files?
I have a site that currently uses Magnolia for managing most of it,  
but has quite a lot of movie content - the movie files are up to 600mb  
in size, and need to stream smoothly, hence I currently use Amazon S3  
storage + Cloudfront content delivery network. The solution works  
pretty well, but the problem is that there's no way to manage the  
movie files from within Magnolia, which makes uploading and changing  
movies complex, time consuming and error prone.

Is there any way to change the back end file system used by the DMS to  
use S3 (or something similar)?
My idea would be that the DMS would keep metadata about files in the  
database, but actually store the files on S3 (perhaps with a local  
master copy too, just so that everything is in one place for  
migrations etc). When a file was requested it would return the S3 URL  
for the file so it would be served directly from Amazon through their  
content delivery network.

Josh


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