Uploading ZIP file to S3, use EC2 to Unzip

Question

I have a Codeigniter web app that is uploading many tiny files every hour to Amazon S3, which is causing my S3 request charges to shoot up real fast. One way to overcome thi

Answer 1

S3 is just storage. Whatever file you upload is the file that is stored. You cannot upload a zip file then extract it once its in S3. If you wrote the application the best thing I could say is to try to re-design how you store the files. S3 requests are pretty cheap... you must be making a lot of requests.