Pain: As a large regional news agency we require the ability to securely and flexibly share urgent and time-sensitive material with external actors (e.g. for comment, legal review, collaboration & confirmation, etc.) and can’t afford to be limited by traditional sharing methods which are often slow, inflexible and insufficiently secure.

Pill:  Openstore, MediaDropBox, AWS S3

Description:  Taking advantage of Openstore and MediaDropBox’s highly efficient integration with Amazon S3 storage services. This integration enables any Openstore or MediaDropBox content to be reliably and securely shared via individual, time-constrained links to the material.

Proof:  As we have quite a bit of experience with S3 containers it was straightforward to configure our Openstore and MediaDropBox installations to place any sensitive materials which require external sharing there and to automatically send time-limited links to each of the required recipients.  So far everything is working as intended and we are satisfied with the installation.

Keywords: Openstore, Video, MediaDropBox, Amazon S3, Amazon AWS, Content sharing (external links)

• Users in Openstore or MediaDropBox uploads content (images/videos etc)

• Openstore (if configured to store videos on S3) stores original video on S3

• Users with permission to share S3 links selects one video, and creates a public link to that object

• Public (External links) kan when sharing in Openstore be set do be available for a certain time, 5 minutes, 1 hour, 7 days, etc etc...

• Notifications to external users can be made by for example e-mail, containing the created public temporary link

Every object stored in AWS S3 bucket by  Openstore can be shared via Temporary public link (regardless of intake, this is just on example starting from MediaDropBox)