S3Proxy

S3Proxy allows applications using the S3 API to access other object stores, e.g., EMC Atmos, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack Swift. It also allows local testing of S3 without the cost or latency associated with using AWS.

Features

• create, remove, and list buckets (including user-specified regions)
• put, get, delete, and list objects
• store and retrieve object metadata, including user metadata
• authorization via AWS signature v2 (including pre-signed URLs) or anonymous access
• listen on HTTP or HTTPS

Supported object stores:

• atmos
• aws-s3
• azureblob
• cloudfiles-uk and cloudfiles-us
• filesystem (on-disk storage)
• hpcloud-objectstorage
• s3
• swift and swift-keystone
• transient (in-memory storage)

Installation

Users can download releases from GitHub. One can also build the project by running mvn package which produces a binary at target/s3proxy. S3Proxy requires Java 7 to run.

Examples

Linux and Mac OS X users can run S3Proxy via the executable jar:

chmod +x s3proxy
s3proxy --properties s3proxy.conf

Windows users must explicitly invoke java:

java -jar s3proxy --properties s3proxy.conf

Users can configure S3Proxy via a properties file. An example using Rackspace CloudFiles (based on OpenStack Swift) as the backing store:

s3proxy.endpoint=http://127.0.0.1:8080
s3proxy.authorization=aws-v2
s3proxy.identity=local-identity
s3proxy.credential=local-credential
jclouds.provider=cloudfiles-us
jclouds.identity=remote-identity
jclouds.credential=remote-credential

Another example using the local file system as the backing store with anonymous access:

s3proxy.authorization=none
s3proxy.endpoint=http://127.0.0.1:8080
jclouds.provider=filesystem
jclouds.identity=identity
jclouds.credential=credential
jclouds.filesystem.basedir=/tmp

S3Proxy can listen on HTTPS when setting the endpoint to HTTPS and configuring a keystore. An example:

s3proxy.endpoint=https://127.0.0.1:8080
s3proxy.keystore-path=keystore.jks
s3proxy.keystore-password=password

Users can also set other Java, jclouds, and S3Proxy properties.

Limitations

S3Proxy does not support:

• single-part uploads larger than 2 GB (jclouds issue)
• multi-part uploads
• POST uploads
• bucket and object ACLs (jclouds issue)
• object metadata with filesystem provider (jclouds issue)
• object versioning

References

Apache jclouds provides object store support for S3Proxy. Ceph s3-tests help maintain and improve compatibility with the S3 API.

License

Copyright (C) 2014 Andrew Gaul

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0