AWS CLI - Part 1: Install

AWS CLI - Part 1: Install

One of the main issues encountered with hosting 360˚ panoramas on AWS buckets is the time it takes to upload the thousands of multiresolution tiles that make up the panoramas. Using the AWS Console to upload 360˚ Panorama projects can be incredibly slow however using AWS CLI the speed of the upload process can be dramatically increased.
Part 1: Install takes you through Download, Installing and Testing the AWS CLI Application

AWS CLI - Part 2: Configure

AWS CLI - Part 2: Configure

One of the main issues encountered with hosting 360˚ panoramas on AWS buckets is the time it takes to upload the thousands of multiresolution tiles that make up the panoramas. Using the AWS Console to upload 360˚ Panorama projects can be incredibly slow however using AWS CLI the speed of the upload process can be dramatically increased.

Part 2: Configure shows you how to create an Identity Access Management (IAM) user, collect configuration data and configure the CLI.

AWS CLI - Part 3: Upload

AWS CLI - Part 3: Upload

One of the main issues encountered with hosting 360˚ panoramas on AWS buckets is the time it takes to upload the thousands of multiresolution tiles that make up the panoramas. Using the AWS Console to upload 360˚ Panorama projects can be incredibly slow however using AWS CLI the speed of the upload process can be dramatically increased.

Part 3: Upload shows how to upload your local files to your S3 Bucket/s and highlights some other useful Command line operations.

Mask the Long S3 URL - Updated

Mask the Long S3 URL - Updated

Most of my 360˚ panoramas are hosted on S3 and then posted into Squarespace using the Code Block and an iFrame. Occasionally I want to provide a url that points directly to the file itself and in this case I want the url's to look like this http://panos.expedition.photography/ rather than https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/panos.expedition.photography/

This is a step-by-step illustrated tutorial on how to set up an S3 Bucket and create a subdomain in GoDaddy to mask the S3 URL.

Configure S3 for 360˚ Panoramas - Old

Configure S3 for 360˚ Panoramas - Old

An increasing number of 360˚ Panorama photographers are hosting their final project files on the Amazon S3 platform. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how configure, upload and publish Pano2VR or Krpano project folders using S3.

Update 23 December 2018: several sections have been updated to reflect changes made by Amazon to the Bucket creation process.