I have an application that allows users to customize a website with CSS and other items. Upon the creation of these files, they are stored on Amazon S3 as being publicly readable. Therefore I have always been able refer to them with a static url that did not require me to first connect to S3 to generate a URL.
We have moved all of the files to an EMC Atmos system that is located within our hosting company's datacenter. I know how to generate shareable URLs from Atmos, but only by first establishing a connection. Is there a way on Atmos to set system metadata on an object so that it can be referred to with a static URL?
You don't need to connect to Atmos to generate a shareable URL. The generation of the shareable URL always happens client-side; it doesn't happen over HTTP.
Atmos system metadata is always immutable. You can generate a "static URL" using a shareable URL with an expiration set to something in the distant future.