Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe when accessing S3 ?

Quick tech tip - if you're trying to access Amazon S3 from Ruby, even with the official aws-sdk gem, and you get errors like this: Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe - when trying to upload, the issue is probably that you need to explicitly set the endpoint appropriately for the region of the bucket you're trying to access. By default, the endpoint is US-specific (US-EAST, I believe) Yes, I know the docs say you don't need to, but try it - if, like me, you find your problem instantly goes away, then Robert is your mothers' brother, as they say. Well, they do round here, anyway. You might find this comprehensive list of AWS endpoints useful. Oh, and it's not immediately obvious from the docs how to set the endpoint - I found it easiest to pass in a :s3_endpoint param when initialising the S3 object, like so - my_s3_object = AWS::S3.new( :s3_endpoint => 's3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com', :access_key_id=>'my access key', :secret_access_key=>'my secret access key')