How to test connection to Amazon

Question

My application is supposed to create new folder at Amazon S3 bucket and to put there some logs. The problem is : it just does not happen. S3 bucket exists (I created it before), but no new folder is seen there.

How can I test the problem? Are there any tools that can be useful?

I turned on Amazon S3 Bucket Logging (see here: http://www.bucketexplorer.com/documentation/amazon-s3--bucket-logging.html), but logs are aggregated once in hour... Then I'm looking for other ways/tools to test the issue.

Answer 1

s3cmd is fine: http://s3tools.org/s3cmd

Answer 2

Amazon S3 is a "flat" file system, meaning it does not have physical folders. "Folders" as you know are simply prefixes added to file names.

Just try to put the file over there, without ever thinking about folders, and see whether that works.