Amazon s3 | What is it | How to Stream Your Own Online Videos and Audio

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So you want to know how to put video or audio on your website or blog?
Well, Amazon s3 is your solution.  It can cost an arm and a leg trying to offer videos online because you’ll exceed your hosting bandwidth and your account can get cancelled, meaning your blog or website could be shut down.
Below is a walkthrough of how to set up your Amazon s3 account and get videos or audios on your website within a few minutes. After the video click the link underneath the video for step-by-step how to Utilize Amazon s3 for all your web pages.

So you want to know how to put video or audio on your website or blog?

Well, Amazon s3 is your solution.  It can cost an arm and a leg trying to offer videos online because you’ll exceed your hosting bandwidth and your account can get cancelled, meaning your blog or website could be shut down.

Below is a walkthrough of how to set up your Amazon s3 account and get videos or audios on your website within a few minutes. After the video click the link underneath the video for step-by-step how to Utilize Amazon s3 for all your web pages.

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Video 1: What is Amazon S3?

In video 1 you will learn about Amazon S3. What it is and how you can use it to save money and maintain a better relationship with your current and soon-to-be customers.
Running time is 5 & a half minutes

Video 2: How much does it cost?

In this video we will cover the figuring of the cost of using the Amazon S3 service. looking at the tables that Amazon provides regarding the charges, some people.. myself being one of those people.. can easily get confused by all the potential charges. This video will simplify things and hopefully remove the air of confusion and replace it with the sweet smell of savings.
Running time is 8 minutes

Video 3: How to setup a S3 account?

In this video you will learn the steps involved in setting up your own Amazon S3 account – This will be rather straight forward and not difficult at all. But I will walk you through it anyway just to make sure we are off to a strong start.

Running time is 7 minutes 47 seconds

Video 4: Cloudberry Explorer – An introduction

Cloudberry Explorer freeware is a powerful Windows program that helps to manage all aspects of Amazon S3 storage. CB Explorer is loaded with all kinds of goodies also known as features that make this free tool stand head & shoulders above its closest ‘paid for’ competitor. This video will cover the installation and an in-depth tour of the features of this cool tool.
Running time is 11 & a half minutes

Video 5: Setup your Cloudberry Explorer

In video 5 we will continue our look at Cloudberry Explorer. In the last video we covered the installation and a tour of the software functions – in this episode we will show you the setup procedures to get
Cloudberry Explorer to work with your Amazon S3 account.
Running time is 7 minutes & 15 seconds

Video 6: How to create a bucket using Cloudberry Explorer

This video will answer the burning question. what the heck is an Amazon S3 Bucket? You will learn not only what a bucket is but also how to make one within the Cloudberry Explorer as well as a few other tid-bits of information regarding your Amazon S3 buckets.
Running time is 10 minutes & 41 seconds long

Video 7: How to share your files

One more video in the Cloudberry Explorer segment of this video series…In this video you will learn how to
share your Amazon S3 files with other S3 account holders. So play nice and get ready to learn a whole new layer of functionality for you Amazon S3 account.
This cool video is just over 9 & a half minutes

Video 8: How to create time expiring URLs

This video will pull back the curtain on how to create your own expiring url’s using Cloudberry Explorer. In addition to creating the time expiring url’s, you will also learn how they work and how to use them. For everyone that hands out digital download links, you need to watch this video.
Running time is 8 minutes and 22 seconds

Video 9: S3 Fox Organizer – An introduction

S3 Fox Organizer, the free FireFox plugin for managing your Amazon S3 files is another fantastic program and not just because of the cost – or lack there of. In this video we will go over the installation
process and a walk around the program to show off some of its
features.

This video is just over 7 minutes long

Video 10: How to setup your S3 Fox Organizer

S3 Fox Organizer is feature packed,.. as we showed you in the previous video and it is easy to setup,.. as we will show you in this video.
This video is 6 minutes and 43 seconds

Video 11: How to create buckets using S3 Fox Organizer

In this video we are continuing to show off some of the features and functionality of S3 Fox Organizer. This time you will learn how to create your Amazon S3 buckets using S3 Fox. You will also learn how to add folders and files to your newly created buckets as well as granting permissions for the whole world to see, access and download your files,.. if you so choose.
Running time for this video is 9 and a half minutes

Video 12: How to share your files

Using S3 Fox Organizer is a great way to manage your files within your Amazon S3 account. In this video you will learn how to share your buckets, folders and files with other Amazon S3 account holders. After watching this video you will more than
likely see several possibilities on how this feature can work with,.. and improve your particular business model.
This video is 6 minutes long

Video 13: How to synchronize your folders

This video on S3 Fox Organizer will show you how to save time and eliminate certain frustrations related to important files and folders on your computer. You will learn how to setup and complete quick backups,.. or folder
synchronizations,.. with push-button ease. This video is a must see.
Running time on this video is 8 minutes

Video 14: S3 Fox Organizer & Time Expiring URLs

In this video you will learn how to create your own expiring url’s using the
FireFox S3 Organizer . In addition to creating the time expiring url’s, you will also learn how they work, how to use them and a powerful tip that will add another layer of security & functionality to your expiring url’s. For everyone that hands out digital download links, this video is for you.
Running time is 9 and a half minutes

Video 15: Your S3 Logging Details

This video will show you how to enable, monitor and view the details and statistics within the logs of your Amazon S3 buckets. This is pretty dry and boring stuff for most people, but you might be
surprised by how much,.. and what type of information you can see inside these logs.
This video is 5 and a half minutes.

Video 16: How To Stream Videos From Your S3 Account

One of the main reasons some people use Amazon S3 is to store their video files so when people watch them, the streaming videos will not
bog down the rest of the web site. In this video you will learn a couple different ways to add streaming videos to your Blog and or web site – Its easy now – once you know how…
This video, the last in this series – is very detailed and is 14 minutes & 43 seconds long.

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