如何在 Amazon s3 Bucket 中压缩文件并获取其 URL

Question

我在 Amazon s3 存储桶中有一堆文件，我想压缩这些文件并使用 Java Spring 通过 S3 URL 下载内容。

Answer 1

S3 is not a file server, nor does it offer operating system file services, such as data manipulation.

If there is many "HUGE" files, your best bet is

1. start a simple EC2 instance
2. Download all those files to EC2 instance, compress them, reupload it back to S3 bucket with a new object name

Yes, you can use AWS lambda to do the same thing, but lambda is bounds to 900 seconds (15 mins) execution timeout (Thus it is recommended to allocate more RAM to boost lambda execution performance)

Traffics from S3 to local region EC2 instance and etc services is FREE.

If your main purpose is just to read those file within same AWS region using EC2/etc services, then you don't need this extra step. Just access the file directly.

(Update) : As mentioned by @Robert Reiz, now you can also use AWS Fargate to do the job.

Note :

It is recommended to access and share file using AWS API. If you intend to share the file publicly, you must look into security issue seriously and impose download restriction. AWS traffics out to internet is never cheap.

Answer 2

Zip them in your end instead of doing it in AWS, ideally in frontend, directly on user browser. You can stream the download of several files in javascript, use that stream to create a zip and save this zip on user disk.

The advantages of moving the zipping to the frontend:

• You can use it with S3 URLs, a bunch of presigned links or even mixing content from different sources, some from S3, some of whatever other place.
• You don't waste lambda memory, nor have to up an EC2 fargate instance, that saves money. Let the user computer do it for you.
• Improves user experience - no needs to wait the zip is created to start downloading it, just start downloading meanwhile the zip is being created.

StreamSaver is useful for this purpose, but in their zipping examples ( Saving multiple files as a zip ) is limited by less than 4GB files as it doesn't implement zip64.

In case you choose this option, keep in mind that if you have CORS enabled in your bucket you will need to add the frontend url where the zipping is done, right in the AllowedOrigins field from your CORS configuration of your bucket.

Answer 3

If you need individual files (objects) in S3 compressed, then it is possible to do so in a round-about way. You can define a CloudFront endpoint pointing to the S3 bucket, then let CloudFront compress the content on the way out: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/ServingCompressedFiles.html

Answer 4

Hi I recently have to do that for my application -- serve a bundle of files in zip format through a url link that the users can download.

In a nutshell, first create an object using BytesIO method, then use the ZipFile method to write into this object by iterating all the s3 objects, then use put method on this zip object and create a presiged url for it.

The code I used looks like this:

First, call this function to get the zip object, ObjectKeys are the s3 objects that you need to put into the zip file.

def zipResults(bucketName, ObjectKeys):
    buffer = BytesIO()
    with zipfile.ZipFile(buffer, 'w', compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) as zip_file:
        for ObjectKey in ObjectKeys:
            objectContent = S3Helper().readFromS3(bucketName, ObjectKey)
            fileName = os.path.basename(ObjectKey)
            zip_file.writestr(fileName, objectContent)

    buffer.seek(0)
    return buffer

Then call this function, key is the key you give to your zip object:

def uploadObject(bucketName, body, key):
    s3client = AwsHelper().getClient("s3")
    try:
        response = s3client.put_object(
            Bucket=bucketName,
            Body=body,
            Key=key
        )
    except ClientError as e:
        logging.error(e)
        return None

    return response

Of course, you would need io, zipfile and boto3 modules.