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
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
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.
AWS CLI - Part 4: Download
AWS CLI - Part 5: Profiles
AWS CLI profiles let you save sets of credentials and settings for individual profiles. So when you’re uploading files, you can specify which profile to use directly in the command, avoiding all that messing about and making everything much faster and easier. It also helps keep things secure as you can limit the credentials to the specific task at hand.
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.
Create an AWS Account
Update 5 January 2021: I’ve updated this tutorial with the latest screen captures and workflow
An increasing number of 360˚ Panorama photographers are hosting their final output files on the Amazon S3 platform. This short tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to open an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account to enable access to the services provided.