AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started
Lots of very useful tips there!<p>There's one that I think could be improved on a little:<p><pre><code>    Uploads should go direct to S3 (don't store on local filesystem and have another process move to S3 for example). 
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You could even use a temporary URL[0,1] and have the user upload directly to S3!<p>[0]: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10044151/how-to-generate-a-temporary-url-to-upload-file-to-amazon-s3-with-boto-library" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10044151/how-to-generate-...</a>
[1]: <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/PresignedUrlUploadObject.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/PresignedUrlU...</a>