Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

Using S3 storage for file uploads

Amazon explains S3 as the storage for the internet that is designed to make web-scale computing easier for the developers. S3 provides a very simple interface via web services; this makes the storage and retrieval of any amount of data very simple at any time from anywhere on the internet. Until now, in our catalog application, we saw that there were issues in managing the product images that were uploaded as a part of the creation process. This whole headache will go away if the images are stored somewhere globally and are easily accessible from anywhere. We will use S3 for the same purpose.