Search code examples
iosimageaudioamazon-s3amazon-cloudfront

Using Amazon S3 for iOS app storing images / audio files

I am new to AWS services, so forgive the simple question:

I'm building an iOS app that is currently using RDS and EC2 instances. I now want to store photos and audio files in an S3 bucket. I know there is an iOS SDK which makes it easy to download from and upload to an S3 bucket directly from the iOS side. However, should I also be using Cloudfront to decrease latency in addition? What's the best way to go about this?

Solution

  • I recently built an app that moved photos back and forth between S3. I looked into using Amazon's SDK but it was just too bulky.

    Instead I used Matt Thompson's AFAmazonS3Manager.

    Worth looking into if you are building an app with AWS.