Question: I was asked how to save all the magento media assets in Amazon S3. I thought about using a PHP Stream Wrapper like this one: <https://github.com/punkave/aS3StreamWrapper> and just set the media folder to s3:\mybucket\mediaFolder

Does anyone has experience with this?

Or better use something like this: [https://github.com/sstoiana/magento-s3](https://github.com/sstoiana/magneto-s3)
But this extension doesn't look good. Any other recommendations?

Answer: 
it seems these guys find a solution: ( <http://thinkglobal.co/resources/moving-the-magento-media-directory-to-s3/> )

There are 2 possible approaches, one being to have Magento push all media assets to S3 as they are created and the other being to simply mount the media directory to an S3 bucket and let Magento think that it’s writing to the local disk. We chose the latter.

We ended up using a tool called s3fs, which uses a broader technology called fuse. With some fairly straightforward configuration (described below), you can get s3fs up and running. Be careful not to hardcode S3 bucket names or API access credentials if you are using AWS or other PAAS provider.

Make sure you replace the following variables with values for your specific configuration:

* {{S3\_BUCKET}} (name of your S3 bucket)
* {{API\_PUBLIC\_ACCESS\_KEY}}(provided by AWS)
* {{API\_SECRET\_ACCESS\_KEY}} (provided by AWS)
* {{UID}}(user id for nginx/apache user)
* {{GID}} (group id for nginx/apache user)
* {{MOUNTED\_DIRECTORY}} (path to your magento media directory)

Here is the setup:

```
yum install -y gcc libstdc++-devel gcc-c++ curl curl* curl-devel libxml2 libxml2* libxml2-devel openssl-devel mailcap

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fuse/fuse-2.X/2.9.3/fuse-2.9.3.tar.gz
tar -xzf fuse-2.9.3.tar.gz
rm -f fuse-2.9.3.tar.gz
mv fuse-2.9.3 fuse
cd fuse/
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
make install
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/
ldconfig
modprobe fuse
pkg-config –modversion fuse

wget http://s3fs.googlecode.com/files/s3fs-1.74.tar.gz
tar -xzvf s3fs-1.74.tar.gz
rm -f s3fs-1.74.tar.gz
mv s3fs-1.74 s3fs
cd s3fs
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
make install

echo “{{S3_BUCKET}}:{{API_PUBLIC_ACCESS_KEY}}:{{API_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}}” > ~/.passwd-s3fs
chmod 600 ~/.passwd-s3fs

echo “user_allow_other” > /etc/fuse.conf

echo “s3fs#{{S3_BUCKET}} {{MOUNTED_DIRECTORY}} fuse use_cache=/tmp,allow_other,uid={{UID}},gid={{GID}} 0 0″ >> /etc/fstab

s3fs -o allow_other -o uid={{UID}} -o gid={{GID}} -ouse_cache=/tmp {{S3_BUCKET}} {{MOUNTED_DIRECTORY}}

```
[OnePica's CDN extension](http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/6274.html) is very handy out of the box for this functionality and supports more than just S3. Quote: "Currently, the extension integrates with Amazon S3, Coral CDN, Mosso/Rackspace Cloud Files, and any CDN, server or service that supports FTP, FTPS, or SFTP."