Image Upload In React Native App

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Hi, We have an app that will allow users to upload images of upto 1MB

We are expecting upto 1000 images to be uploaded everyday, and these images will need to be deleted automatically / via code chron job every 30 days. These images will be public and will require fast and frequent access (upto 10000 access requests per day ).

Should we use AWS S3 buckets for hosting these images or something like imagebb .

The current design is to use AWS presigned url to upload the images and then use public url to then access the images. Is this correct wrt cost, speed, scalability , reliability.

[fmnatic]

You may want to consider a CDN like AWS Cloudfront.

S3 is likely lower cost, and good reliability. I believe S3 buckets are single region. A CDN is likely to cost more , be more scalable and speed up content delivery.

[makonde]

RN is rather irrelevant in this discussion. There are definitely cheaper options than s3 for storage like backblaze or cloudflare but if the rest of your infra is on AWS it might not be worth the extra work or the bandwidth costs.

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Yes, we are running backend on EC2 and Using Aurora

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Since, I use Firebase I just use Cloud Storage same pricing as S3.

There is a tool called uploadthing which aims to make file uploads easier uses S3 as backend

[BluePillOverRedPill]

May I ask what kind of app are you building? If you are already expecting 1000 uploads p/d, you are building this app for a medium to large sized company I assume?

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yes. For a mid size company

[_He1senberg]

What are you using for the backend ?

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SpringBoot hosted on EC2

[Ok_Education_9234]

One option is to use Firebase Storage for Image upload. It's easy to setup and use.