Cloud Storage with AWS S3 – Part 1

July 25, 2016July 25, 2016

Beside the power, scalability and low cost of cloud computing, one of the most exciting aspects of Amazon Web Services is how easy is it to experiment with. At first the AWS console can look like daunting array of icons and services (SimpleElasticBeanFace…coming soon?) However, it’s much easier to play around with and learn than back in the days of running your own hardware servers. Plus there’s already a massive global infrastructure of data centers at your disposal! Simple Storage Solution, S3, is a prefect starting point to get your feet wet (or should I say: head wet in the cloud). This blog will cover how to upload an image via the AWS console and download it using Swift in iOS. Even before delving into the AWS Swift SDK, downloading images/video/JSON from S3 into an app is quite straightforward.