This is our in-house version of s3boto from django-storages.
You can use this with a Django site to host your static/media files on Amazon S3.
We have a lot of files on our S3 server, and media-rich pages, so caching file names and sizes is essential to getting good website performance. Unfortunately, the caching found in [most forks of] s3boto uses a lot of memory... in our case, ~150 MB just for caching what files are available!
@bradenmacdonald has modified this version to use very memory-efficient caching, building on the caching fixes published by @alanjds.
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Work well in conjunction with Easy Thumbnails, specifically never issuing a
HEADorGETrequest when thumbnails already exist. -
Look up
exist()/modified_time()/size()requests from an in-memory cache whenever possible. -
Assume other processes may be creating files and thumbnails on the S3 server, but don't reload the entire cache when that happens.
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Allow multiple instances of
S3BotoStorageto coexist and share a common cache, when they use the same bucket. -
Cache S3 entries using as little memory as possible.
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Assume files are never deleted from the S3 server, nor modified while the server is running.
All you need to do is copy the file s3storage.py somewhere into your web app.
Examples of how to configure it are in example_settings.py.
Configuration options are the same as the django-storages version.