FTP server using S3 as storage

Question

I am trying to create a ftp server ( using windows/linux/mac - no concern) which would have its storage as a Amazon S3 storage. Now note that S3 does not support FTP natively so

Answer 1

What you could try.. Using s3fs, mount your s3 bucket to a directory within your Amazon EC2 instance - using a bit of: sudo s3fs -o allow_other,uid=12345,gid=12345 my-bucket my-ftp-directory/

Then set up vsftpd or any other FTP program, create a user and assign their home directory to be that of my-ftp-directory. Chroot this user to this directory, then try and FTP in using the users credentials and the ip of the EC2 Instance.. I haven't tried it yet, but after mounting a bucket using this technique to my public files directory in Drupal, it's worked fine!