Amazon Web services have N number of services, one among them is Aws Identity and Access Management(IAM). IAM allows you to securely access the AWS services.

Using IAM you can control the who can use your AWS service and what resource they can use. With IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.

We can integrate IAM with many platforms like NodeJS, .NET, Java etc., Here we can see how to use AWS IAM with PHP platform.
require '/path/to/aws-autoloader.php';

Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is one of the best PHP accelerators around for a while.

Wikipedia ideally describes the same as below,

The topic looks so simple isn't it? It looked simple to me when I ran into such a kind of need. The first and foremost PHP function that I thought to get this done was array_combine. It did produce the desired result, the below piece of code shows my implementation,

At KnackForge we offer hosting services to most of the sites and applications we develop. Being a small team we try to automate most of our processes, and here is an attempt to make it for backup, archive and upload to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

If you are reading this post you are probably more aware of the essence of backup. This post starts with a bit of introduction to S3 and goes along with a simple case script together with brief explanation.