The new site we have been working on these past couple months is going to rely heavily on Amazon S3 to store and serve static content.   A big problem with the Amazon S3 service is statistics, in fact the only statistics Amazon gives you are on usage/cost which is paltry compared to the wealth of information I have grown accustomed to through Apache/Awstats.

Then I found:  http://www.s3stat.com/

One trip to their website and you’ll find everything they do clearly explained but assuming your to lazy to click here is a summary straight from their homepage.

S3STAT is a service that takes the detailed server access logs provided by Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), and translates them into human readable statistics, reports and graphs.

Every night, we’ll download your access logs, translate them, sort them, and run them through Webalizer, the industry-standard web analytics reporting package. We’ll take the processed log files and reports, and stick them right back into your Amazon S3 Bucket for you to view.

In other words I get decent stats from my Amazon S3 account for $2/month.  Its only day one for me but it seems like a good service, I only wish they had an option to view logs using Awstats because 1999 called and they want the shitty interface that Webalizer uses back.

Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
Filed under: Programming, Technology