How to setup and amazon webservices and connect to from Rails

Some notes for future me the next time I need to do this again.

Create amazon webservice account

Goto management console

https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?sc_icampaign=welcome_email_2&sc_ichannel=EM&sc_icontent=console_link&sc_idetail=intro_paragraph&sc_iplace=welcome_email_2#

Click on S3 for storage.

Create a new bucket

Create any directories you want

Upload your resource

Upload resource into your bucket
https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home?region=us-west-2

Set content-type to audio/mpeg for video

If you try connecting to the link you just created

you will get an unauthorized error. That’s because unless open to everyone, only authorized users will be able to see.

To see what your authorized access link would look like, right click on your resource and select open.

That URL you see at the top of the new window (containing access AWSAccessKeyId) is what you’ll need to build as a link, so your users can click and watch your video.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/agilenutshell/video/Project+Status+Reports.mp4?AWSAccessKeyId=XXX

You need to build this link above, inserting your aws credentials.

So created your credentials, then build the link in rails (gist below).

Create security credentials

https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#security_credential

https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/securityCredentials (old)

Build link

https://gist.github.com/iwasrobbed/1032395