Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS

Direct object upload pattern

In this last pattern, we will try to resolve the original issue in a different way rather than optimize on the original attempt. The problem we are facing is how to handle data that needs to be uploaded to a central store. We would like to stay with Amazon-provided services as much as possible, so what we will attempt to do here is demonstrate direct upload into S3 from a web server.

In both the write proxy pattern and the storage index pattern, we allowed the user to upload into S3 using an FTP server as a proxy. S3 itself has a very robust HTTP POST support and allows S3 access via HTTP methods, even without being configured for static website access, as we currently have enabled on our bucket.

For this pattern, we ...