Record stream directly to S3 with AWS Multipart Upload?

[ange52]

Hi all,

I got an email from Amazon last month announcing S3 Multipart Upload:

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what...tipart-Upload/

Right away I started checking the Wowza forums to see if this would be rolled into the EC2-S3 configuration rather than the current implementation. Is there any chance that will be happening? Would that alleviate some of the problems that can pop up from recording to EC2 then transferring after the recording has completed?

Thanks all!
Ange52

[charlie]

Recordind direct to S3 is done through the s3fs system. It would need to adopt this new addtional:

http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/

Charlie

[ange52]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, Charlie. You're good!

I know that S3FS is used to transfer the files from EC2 to S3, but I thought that the current implementation that is bundled with Wowza first records the FLV to the EC2 instance and detects when the recording is complete. When the recording has finished, it transfers the complete FLV to S3.

Is that right? Is there any way that this process could be simplified by recording directly to the S3 bucket? And programs wouldn't then need to record the file and then wait while the file is being transferred to S3 before playback.

[charlie]

We have no plans to add this type of feature. We will continue to leverage s3fs to do recording to S3.

Charlie

[ange52]

Thanks, Charlie.

[ecropolis]

I was trying to do something like this by creating an init.sh script and referencing it in the startup package.
init.sh contains the following:
#!/bin/sh
mkdir /mnt/s3
/usr/bin/s3fs bucketname -o accessKeyId=accesskey -o secretAccessKey=secretkey -o default_acl=public-read /mnt/s3

I wanted to share and maybe get some feedback. I haven't been able to get it to work. When I try to launch and instance it's completely broken. Might be a problem with my zip or encoding. Using a PHP script.... er. trying to.