How do I show an image from my Amazon S3 on my website?

Question

I have my pictures on Amazon S3. The pictures are private and not public so I can not show them with a direct link s3.amazonaws/bucket_name/key_name/image_name.jpg

Answer 1

Easiest thing to do is make them public in s3, at least read-only.

If you don't want them to be public on s3, for whatever reason, you could add a cloudfront distribution that will serve the images from your s3 bucket, and you can give cloudfront access to the files, without making the images public in s3.

This link shows you how to do that:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/private-content-restricting-access-to-s3.html