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by ajbeach22 2614 days ago
>That said, I'm not sure how serious you are about handling file uploads, but uploading directly to buckets often means uploading to a single region (on aws, a bucket may be hosted in us-east-1 for instance, meaning high latency for folks in e.g. Australia). This may or may not be problematic for your use case, but it did bring us complaints when we had that.

You can use https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/transfer-acc...

S3 acceleration uses the cloudfront distributed edge locations. As the data arrives at an edge location, data is routed to Amazon S3 over an optimized network path. This costs more money though.