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by notduncansmith 3976 days ago
I'd like to give a big shout-out to Imgix, they've built a truly useful service. Their landing page copy features lines like "You can't build this in a weekend" and "This isn't ImageMagick running on EC2" - and from what I've seen using them, they live up to it. Kudos on a great product, Imgix team (and congrats on the recent funding)!

P.S. We tried using Cloudinary at first, but Imgix turned out to be much easier to manage. A killer feature for us was allowing us to source images from an S3 bucket (a feature Cloudinary only exposes to Enterprise customers).

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I'm on Cloudinary and looking to migrate out. How difficult was it to switch?

I'm at the Enterprise level at Cloudinary

I have no idea how hard it would be for you, we're still young so it was quite painless for us. The biggest thing is to move from storing image URLs to storing image IDs (which, if you're on Cloudinary, you may already be doing). If you're already uploading to your own S3 bucket, you're most of the way there.
Thanks! Yeah, we're storing IDs and we're already using a bucket. Thinking about it now, it doesn't seem so daunting. :)