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

I have been using this service to unzip files full of thousands of tiny image files, each zip I upload is about 4GB, and costs around $1 to unzip using http://www.cloudzipinc.com/service/s3_unzip, maybe that might help someone.

Having said that, you might find it easier to use Python with the Boto library. That will work far more efficiently than PHP.