Better (and Cheaper!) Content Storage with Amazon S3, CloudFront, and ColdFusion Brian Klaas Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [email protected] @brian_klaas The Problem The Problem 1 I need to upload a file The Problem 1 How big will the files be? How many files? What’s the projected growth? The Problem 1 Is the drive big enough? Used Space Free Space 98% 2% The Problem 1 Storage is cheap. But you’ve got to manage it. The Problem 1 Set up redundant storage ■ SAN ■ High–Speed I/O to servers ■ Multiple nodes in the data center ■ Authentication and authorization The Problem 1 What happens when they stop uploading Word files and start uploading PDFs? ZIP files? MP4s? The Problem 1 You can't delete anything. EVER The Problem 1 What about bandwidth costs?