--- layout: post title: "Amazon S3, Ruby and Rails talk" --- I'm going to be giving a talk on Amazon S3, Ruby and Rails at the next "Vancouver Ruby and Rails meetup":http://ruby.meetup.com/112/calendar/6693048/. It's this Monday, December 3rd. Here's the talk teaser: bq. Amazon's Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an online storage system. It can be used for backup, serving assets for your Rails application, storing and streaming large media files or storing customer generated assets. bq. The AWS/S3 gem, written by Marcel Molina, provides an elegant interface to Amazon S3. I'll be talking about how S3 works, how to use it in your Ruby scripts and Rails applications and showing off some example code. Hope to see you there!