PHP Amazon S3 access private files through URL

Question

I\'m using AWS PHP sdk to save images on S3. Files are saved privately. Then, I\'m showing the image thumbnails using the S3 file url in my web application but

Answer 1

You will need to access the files through a script on your server. That script will do some kind of authentication to make sure the request is valid and you want them to see the file. Then fetch the file from S3 using a valid IAM profile that can access the private files. Output the file

Instead of requesting the file from S3 request it from http://www.yourdomain.com/fetchimages.php?key=8498439834

Then here is some pseudocode in fetchimages.php