The last month or so has been a non-stop roller coaster...
Amazon S3 can do some amazing things. However, sometimes you just want to do something simple. It took me a while to work out how to make all my files in a bucket publicly viewable. The solution isn't immediately obvious or user friendly, so I'm posting it below in the hope it helps out someone else trying to do the same thing!
File this one under useful code. PHPFog, the popular PaaS is amazingly good for many kinds of PHP based website including Expression Engine. However, because of the closed source nature of the CMS, documentation on how to get it up-and-running is harder to find than systems like Wordpress.