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Exposes an HTTP endpoint for a given S3 bucket and prefix. Supports exposing private S3 keys through an IAM key/secret. Transparently serves index.html for URLs ending in / and will generate an index when no index.html is found.
Originally meant as a way to serve a private pypi repository
on an S3 bucket.
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HTTP Proxy for S3 buckets
We found that s3proxy demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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