Magento 2 Amazon S3 Extension

• The Magento 2 S3 Extension has easy and flexible settings to integrate your Magento 2 store with Amazon S3.
• The admin can set either a local or Amazon server for uploading the files of your downloadable product & other  media files of all Magento 2 product types.
• The module uses the S3 bucket to upload the files on the Amazon server if the allowed server to upload the files is set to Amazon.
• The admin can check the S3 bucket status and whether it’s available or not in just a single click.
• The admin can re-synchronize media storage without uploading media to the bucket.

• The admin will follow the default steps to create a product ( In case of a Downloadable product ) and upload the relevant files in it & save the product successfully.
• The admin will get the Amazon S3 link only after saving the downloadable product successfully.
• The customer will download the downloadable product from the Amazon Server just like any other downloadable product from the local Server.
• The customer can download the downloadable product only after the admin has created the order invoice.

Media storage helps you organize and gain access to media files that are stored on the server. Files in media storage can be accessed from the editor while working on pages and static blocks.

• After configuring the Magento 2 Amazon S3 Extension, the admin can also select the Amazon S3 as new media storage for fast and reliable accessing of data.
• A synchronization option is also available for synchronizing all the media files to the storage option selected.
• All the media files that are uploaded over the Amazon S3 are retrieved by the help of the base URL set by the admin.

The extension is able to upload and sync all of the files on Amazon's S3 AWS servers such as

• Media files of all types of products available in Magento 2.
• Media Files such as product images, logo, WYSIWYG images, videos, category images, editor images, CMS images, Favicons, etc.
• You can also upload your downloadable products to the Amazon S3 servers.

For an eCommerce website, the speed of the website is very important. The website speed will directly impact customer browsing experience. Ultimately, it affects your business.

If your website takes a long time to load, the customers might abandon to stay on the website which affects the revenue.

• This feature will help the website users to fetch the content of the website at a very high speed.
• This will ensure an immediate response from the website whenever a user searches for a media file on the website.
• If the website user will view the image in the new tab, the source includes CloudFront in the URL.

• Static files can now be saved on the Amazon S3 service ie(HTML, CSS, JS).
• It is better to use the static files feature in the production mode.
• Admin can enable/disable the static view file.
• The module uses the S3 bucket name to upload the files to the Amazon server.
• The admin can also set the Region to the Amazon S3 server.

Now ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) ensures automatic distribution of incoming traffic across multiple targets like - Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. Moreover, deploy static site files - HTML, CSS, and JS in the S3 bucket.

It can easily handle the load of the application traffic across single or multiple availability zones. Now it supports four types of load balancers that contain high availability, automatic scaling, and strong security features -

• Application Load Balancer - It routes the traffic to targets within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud on the basis of the content of the request.
• Network Load Balancer - It is the best for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required.
• Gateway Load Balancer – It helps to deploy, scale, and manage third-party virtual appliances. It also supports the automatic scaling of virtual appliances. Furthermore, it also automatically reroutes the traffic from unhealthy virtual appliances instance to a healthy one.
• Classic Load Balancer - It is designed for applications that are built within the EC2-Classic network. And operates at request and connection level. It supports - Layer 4 or Layer 7 Load Balancing, SSL Offloading, and IPv4 and IPv6 for EC2-Classic networks.

By default, Magento 2 stores media files, JS, CSS in server disk storage which would create inconsistencies in case of multiple instances behind the load balancer. Managing media files and static assets on Amazon S3 would be useful in serving static content regardless of the number of servers. Magento 2 S3 Extension also allows us to set expire headers which would be beneficial in leverage browser caching.