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Media - Setup Amazon S3

Store your media files on Amazon S3 for better performance and scalability.

Prerequisites

  • An AWS account
  • An S3 bucket created
  • IAM user with S3 access permissions

Configuration

  1. In admin panel, go to Settings -> Media
  2. Select Amazon S3 as the storage driver
  3. Fill in the credentials:
  • AWS Access Key ID: Your IAM user access key
  • AWS Secret Access Key: Your IAM user secret key
  • AWS Region: The region of your S3 bucket (e.g., us-east-1)
  • Bucket Name: Your S3 bucket name
  • URL: (Optional) Custom CDN URL
  1. Click Save

WARNING

Make sure your S3 bucket has proper CORS configuration if you need direct browser uploads.

TIP

Use CloudFront as a CDN in front of S3 for faster media delivery to your mobile customers worldwide.