Great news for Joomla users who make use of cloud computing to push user experience to the next level! JA Amazon S3 Component 2.0 is available and comes with new features and lots of improvements.
JA Amazon S3 has quickly become popular on the JED thanks to your good reviews and votes. With lots of great feedback from users, and only 3 weeks from the release of JA Amazon S3 Component 1.x, we have updated this tool to make content storage and delivery via Amazon S3 & Cloudfront a real piece of cake.
It is really important to us what our users think and want to get improved, so you can support us by:
Review JA Amazon S3 on JED
If you are new to cloud computing, please note that Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. JA Amazon S3 Component was developed to provide an interface for the Amazon Web Services and facilitates cloud computing for Joomla.
Video Tutorial
Grab a coffee and watch a 5 minute quick start video on the JA Amazon S3 Component and Amazon Web Services!
What's new?
Multiple Buckets Support
Create unlimited buckets for each and/or all media content types, get them all on the cloud! For each bucket you can set the cron job settings according to your file types and change frequency. Check it out... it's really that awesome!
Amazon CloudFront Support
Amazon CloudFront delivers your static and streaming content using a global network (CDN) of more than 16 locations. Requests for your objects are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. JA Amazon S3 2.0 now makes it possible to set multiple CloudFront Domains for your Multiple Buckets.
Multiple Sync Profiles
A new powerful preset feature for your multiple buckets, multiple settings, multiple locations in the CDN, multiple cron job settings, multiple folders of your website and all with simple and intuitive administration. You have tons of options to make syncing profiles as granular as you need.
How To Upgrade: Quick Guide
We recommend uninstalling the old 1.x version and installing the new 2.0 version. Then follow the steps:
- In the administration section of your website, go to the Extensions menu and click Install/Uninstall
- Save your account information!
- Click to open the Components tab, select JA Amazon S3 and click the Uninstall button
- Download the new version to your desktop and install it. Note that the JA S3 Plugin is now installed and enabled on component installation. See installation steps in the video tutorial.
Please check the JA Amazon S3 Forum for more information.
What's next?
We are looking forward to the cloud computing technology, it is really improving the web browsing experience. Leave us your ideas in the comments below and help us to improve the usability of our cloud computing component for Joomla.
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