Configure AWS S3 bucket for remote storage

The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. The AWS S3 service uses buckets, or containers, for data storage. This configuration requires you to create a private bucket.

Magento highly discourages the use of public buckets because it poses a serious security risk.

To enable remote storage with the AWS S3 adapter:

1. Log in to your Amazon S3 dashboard and create a private bucket.

2. Set up AWS IAM roles. Alternatively, generate access and secret keys.

3. Database storage must be disabled if using remote storage:

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   bin/magento config:set system/media_storage_configuration/media_database 0
   

4. Configure Magento to use the private bucket. See Remote storage options for a full list of parameters.

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   bin/magento setup:config:set --remote-storage-driver="aws-s3" --remote-storage-bucket="<bucket-name>" --remote-storage-region="<region-name>" --remote-storage-prefix="<optional-prefix>" --remote-storage-key=<optional-access-key> --remote-storage-secret=<optional-secret-key> -n
   

Configure Nginx

Nginx requires an additional configuration to perform Authentication with the proxy_pass directive. Add the following proxy information to the nginx.conf file:

nginx.conf

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location ~* \.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|svg|js|css|swf|eot|ttf|otf|woff|woff2)$ {
    # Proxying to AWS S3 storage.
    resolver 8.8.8.8;
    set $bucket "<s3-bucket-name>";
    proxy_pass https://s3.amazonaws.com/$bucket$uri;
    proxy_pass_request_body off;
    proxy_pass_request_headers off;
    proxy_intercept_errors on;
    proxy_hide_header "x-amz-id-2";
    proxy_hide_header "x-amz-request-id";
    proxy_hide_header "x-amz-storage-class";
    proxy_hide_header "Set-Cookie";
    proxy_ignore_headers "Set-Cookie";
}

Authentication

If you use access and secret keys instead of AWS IAM roles, you must include the ngx_aws_auth Nginx module.

Permissions

The S3 integration relies on being able to generate and store cached images on the local file system. Therefore, folder permissions for pub/media or similar, should be the same as if you were using local storage.

File Operations

It is highly recommended that you use Magento’s file adapter methods in your coding or extension development, regardless of the file storage type. When using S3 for storage, you should take care not to use any native PHP file I/O operations such as copy, rename or file_put_contents, as S3 files are not within the file system. Reference DriverInterface.php for code examples.