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Monday, 3 September 2012

Amazon S3 - Cross Origin Resource Sharing Support

GREAT NEWS!!!

AWS has announced support for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Amazon S3.

You can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in Amazon S3, enabling you to implement HTML5 drag and drop uploads to Amazon S3, show upload progress, or update content. Until now, you needed to run a custom proxy server between your web application and Amazon S3 to support these capabilities. A custom proxy server was required because web browsers limit the way web pages loaded from one site (e.g., mywebsite.com) can interact with content from another location (e.g., a location in Amazon S3 like assets.mywebsite.com.s3.amazonaws.com). Amazon S3’s support for CORS replaces the need for this custom proxy server by instructing the web browser to selectively enable these cross-site interactions.

Configuring your bucket for CORS is easy. To get started, open the Amazon S3 Management Console, and follow these simple steps:

1) Right click on your Amazon S3 bucket and open the “Properties” pane.
2) Under the “Permissions” tab, click the “Add CORS configuration” button to add a new CORS configuration. You can then specify the websites (e.g., "mywebsite.com”) that should have access to your bucket, and the specific HTTP request methods (e.g., “GET”) you wish to allow.
3) Click Save.

For more information on using CORS with Amazon S3, review the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.

CLOUD INFOGRAPHIC: GOOGLE DRIVE VS THE COMPETITION

Google's cloud service is serious about taking on the competition.

This infographic compares Google Drive to its top three competitors: Dropbox, Microsoft's Skydrive, and Apple's iCloud. Besides comparing size, pricing, and platform support, we also take a look at a brief history of these cloud services.

There are hundreds of cloud services available today, a fact which does not make it any easier for users to select a cloud storage provider that fits their needs.

Google is no longer the only kid on the cloud computing block. In fact, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and even private parties are entering into the cloud storage industry, and rather aggressively. The race is on for these cloud storage services to bring in the most customers and attract the most attention, but who is the best of the best? Answering this question is not as simple as one might hope. In fact, there’s a lot more to selecting the best cloud storage company than meets the eye.

This is because cloud storage is customized to users based on their distinct needs, which means while a certain cloud storage may be perfect for one individual, it might not work well for another.