title: Using ImageMagick to generate thumbnails for images stored in Amazon S3
body: <p>I'm looking to use ImageMagick's convert utility to make thumbnails for images stored in S3. I'm writing this in Python.</p>
  
  <p>How should I approach this? </p>
  
  <p>Should I read the image from S3, save it to a temporary folder on an EC2 instance, generate the thumbnail to a temporary directory, then put the temporary file into S3 and delete it?</p>
  
  <p>Or can I "pipe" the result from S3 right into ImageMagick without storing it to local disk?</p>
  
  <p>Is there a recommended way to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>