John, The free tier will give you a chance to see what your actual charges would be. Basically you are paying a small amount to store the data, basically zero to upload it and are charged when you download it. I'm not sure what the exact specifics are for development vs. first year free. I got my stuff up and running in a few weeks so I didn't worry about it.
One tip - and I think Bruno says this to in his docs - setup a 'development' bucket to use for testing. I will caution you on another point - create a new Amazon account for your AWS work. I, and others, have blithely registered with our personal Amazon id, which is very easy to do, only to find that we can't transfer the working configuration later on. So start a new Amazon account, or do it in your business name, because if you eventually want to transfer it to a customer you essentially have to give the Amazon account to them. At least that's the way it looked to me. Things may have changed in the last year or so. On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:31 PM JOHN BAUGHMAN via 4D_Tech < [email protected]> wrote: > Kirk, > > You said less than $10 a month. I took a look at the AWS Cost > Calculator and couldn’t figure out how to use it. > > I anticipate using S3 for the sole purpose of sharing files that > average around 500mb with a few pushing 1gb. We might have at most 10 or so > requests a month and each uploaded file would have at most a 24 hour > lifespan. Any idea what we might expect our cost to be? > > It looks like we would fit well in their 1 year Free Usage Tier. > It comes with 5gb of storage/month, but how is that calculated if files are > uploaded and then deleted after 24 hours such that for most of the time our > bucket(s) would be empty. > > Correct me if I am wrong, but If I understand their web site I > should be able to use the Free Tier for development and when I deploy my > client can do the same for their first year. > > Thanks, > > John > > > > > > On Jun 28, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > John, > > I'll second Bruno's suggestion and suggest you go get his component to do > > it. > > > > I've been using it for at least a year managing about 50k docs in AWS. It > > works well and AWS is very cost effective for light duty like this. I > think > > we are paying ~$10 a month for all the stuff we use. It is really > > convenient to be able to work with AWS URLs for these things. > > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 1:42 PM JOHN BAUGHMAN via 4D_Tech < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I have a website with 4D backend that serves architectural drawings in > >> PDF format. Each drawing is part of a larger set of drawings for a > specific > >> project. I need to provide a means for the user to download the entire > set > >> of drawings in a single PDF. I already have the project PDFs created and > >> available, but these files are far too big to allow them to be > displayed in > >> the browser as is done with the individual drawings. > >> > >> So I am thinking of using DropBox as a means to share these files with > the > >> end user. Does anyone have any experience with the DropBox developer > API. > >> I am envisioning that when requested having 4D move the project PDF to > >> DropBox and returning a link to the shared file. > >> > >> Is there another way to do this that I should take a looking at? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> John > >> > >> > >> John Baughman > >> [email protected] > >> ********************************************************************** > >> 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > >> FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > >> Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > >> Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > >> Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > >> ********************************************************************** > > > > > > > > -- > > Kirk Brooks > > San Francisco, CA > > ======================= > > > > *We go vote - they go home* > > ********************************************************************** > > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > > ********************************************************************** > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** -- Kirk Brooks San Francisco, CA ======================= *We go vote - they go home* ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
