Jaan Paljasma | Tech Blog

Amazon S3 Adds Two New Long-Awaited Features Bucket Limit Increase You can now increase your Amazon S3 bucket limit per AWS account. All AWS accounts have a default bucket limit of 100 buckets, and starting today you can now request additional buckets by visiting AWS Service Limits. Read-after-write Consistency Amazon S3 now supports read-after-write consistency for new objects added to Amazon S3 in US Standard region. Prior to this announcement, all regions except US Standard supported read-after-write consistency for new objects uploaded to Amazon S3. With this enhancement, Amazon S3 now supports read-after-write consistency in all regions for new objects added to Amazon S3. Read-after-write consistency allows you to retrieve objects immediately after creation in Amazon S3. Now go ahead and bump the # of S3 buckets in AWS Service Limits page.

If you are already using MongoDB Monitoring Service, or MMS, the next logical step here is to sign up for their backup service. MongoDB Backup Service MBS is a cloud-based service provided by 10gen for backing up and restoring MongoDB. Engineered for MongoDB, it features point-in-time recovery and is hosted in reliable, redundant and secure data centers. Update - I got access to MongoDB Backup Service and tried it out! Read more below. MongoDB backup, own way Before MBS was there, I spent some time setting up the backup scripts on one of my secondary servers in replica set, and it works very straight forward once set up: create backup archive and store in S3, and keep only 30 days worth of backups. run mongodump --oplog -u user -p pass mongobackups create backup-YYYYMMMDDHH.tar.bz2 file from mongobackups run /usr/bin/s3put to move file to S3 storage delete mongobackups folder Configure S3 storage lifecycle: Move to Glacier 1 day after creation date Expiration (delete)...