Next.Js 14 - AWS S3 Image Upload using API Route

[@RaddyDev]

Hey everyone, I've come across a few S3 horror stories recently and wanted to share a word of caution. Please be mindful when using 'pay only for what you use' services, as bills can stack up quickly if something goes wrong. Regularly review your cost and usage reports and set up AWS Budgets for alerts. And like BobBoblsSwag said, please don't use the "NEXT_PUBLIC_" prefix before the environment variables.

[@xovAvox]

This is exactly the functionality I wanted to implement in my application, but I could never get it to work on my own. This tutorial is the only one out of many that I watched that actually worked for me! Thank you so much!

[@RaddyDev]

Glad to hear that the video was helpful!

[@himynameisvirgil]

You save my life and my semester!!!!! Thank you so much for the tutorial. I read a lot but none was as clear as your tutorial.

[@gabriele8339]

Explained in a simple way without missing anything => perfect tutorial

[@JustinTiell]

This video was amazing! I kept finding ones that almost solved the issue, but this was perfect for my needs.

[@RaddyDev]

I hope that you find the video useful.

[@FipHomes]

Did you make a video using server actions yet? If not, that would be very useful! Thanks, great job!

[@RaddyDev]

I did: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYXEnKF8ZtCchJI

[@BobBobIsSwag]

Hey, please don't use the "NEXT_PUBLIC_" prefix before the environment variables because this makes them publicly available to the client browser. These env variables are only supposed to be used Server Side through Api Routes/Server Actions. This creates a security vulnerability.

[@RaddyDev]

Thank you for pointing that out. I've pinned your comment so everybody is aware. I am am also trying to blur the public part 😄

[@ambitious1z]

Thanks!

[@RaddyDev]

What a legend! Thank you!

[@himynameisvirgil]

Thanks!

[@RaddyDev]

Wow that's super kind of you! That's my first super thanks, thank you! 🎉

[@tanmaypant8493]

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS MASTERPIECE!! I am really looking forward for more on aws!

[@Rajvirnahar]

Subscribed. can you do a video where you show how to add these stored images in S3 to to ur website front end?

[@saadbaig3060]

Great Video! Thank you so much ❣

[@anubhav5709]

Great video Hope u create more on AWS Services from nextjs

[@RaddyDev]

That's the plan!

[@eraybaydemir8550]

my man it is very clear and good video. Thank you al lpt for your generous contribition. I loved your clear explanation and to the point statements and you have explained every little detail for us to understand completeyly keep it up buddy!! one thing I want to ask is why didnt we put headers params while writing the fecting request. I expected that we should write the classic: 'Content-Type' : 'application/json'

[@RaddyDev]

I appreciate the comment. I should have done that to ensure that both client and server are in sync peaking the same language. I will update the GitHub repo, thank you

[@Perrynatufe9105]

Thank you so much. THis video was really helpful

[@RaddyDev]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kdot78]

How would you track the progress of the uploading task? also make a video about uploading multiple files and tracking progress of multiple files. that could be really interesting. Most of time when you upload files on the internet you get progress bar and you can also abort the task. thanks anyway tho, pretty good video 👍

[@kdot78]

just saw a video on your channel about multiple file upload. so thanks. but still consider the progress bar and abort feature

[@CaseStudyQB]

Great tutorial, i wish i knew how to get the final public path back through the api

[@RaddyDev]

Thank you! Copy paste from another reply: You could do it manually:

[@CaseStudyQB]

@@RaddyDev awesome! Thanks so much for the reply! I will try this when I get home

[@amranmohamed377]

How do you get the policy; you justed pasted from out no where 😅

[@RaddyDev]

😁 When you Edit the Bucket policy you can click on Policy Examples or Policy Generator and create one that suits your needs. In Policy Examples you'll find a lot of good use cases which you can copy/paste and finally, you can look at the Varcel AWS S3 Image Upload example policy. They've added a few more actions: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "s3:DeleteObject", "s3:GetObject", "s3:ListBucket", "s3:PutObject", "s3:PutObjectAcl" ], "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME", "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME/*"] } ] }

[@amranmohamed377]

@@RaddyDevThank you SOO much for your tutorial video Raddy! Please can you direct us how to do it with server actions, if you get a time tor that?

[@RaddyDev]

That's how I ended up doing it on one of my website - using server actions. I could do a video on that... I am strongly considering making one

[@official_kaifansari]

How I get upload percentage to client side ???

[@togya4]

you are the best

[@ruchithsamarawickrama4604]

thank you , very clear

[@ambitious1z]

amazing!

[@aogunnaike]

Thanks for this 🙏

[@YashKumar-cj6gx]

Hey can you give the code which gives us the public link on the same page of our image after uploading it to S3

[@RaddyDev]

It should be in the description of the video

[@z1982_]

Hello! The bundle size is 3.04 MB... Will it affect the performance of my next app?

[@ongame2264]

How to get the image url or show the images to our website? I have tried using the AWS SDK Client S3 but it doesn't work. Can you give some explanation? Is there a tutorial about this? Thanks in advance🙌

[@RaddyDev]

You could do it manually:

[@ongame2264]

Oh my gosh, this is a very nice idea! Thank you so much @@RaddyDev! 🙌

[@abhishekkumar-ud7dc]

It was really helpful

[@jagdish1o1]

Instead of putting setLoading state in both try and cache, simply put that in finally block. And now we have server actions 🙌 so no more apis.

I don't get it - are You uploading image from the server? So you send image to Your server and then it sends to remote server?

[@RaddyDev]

The web server acts as a middleman. A person uploads a file using a form, web server receives the file (perform any operations - ex file optimisation, checks, etc...) and then we use the AWS SDK API to send the file directly to AWS S3. In this case nothing is stored on the web server and we just use it for processing, validation, optimisation etc..

[@injamulhaque9641]

the bucket policy given in the description is not working, I have added "s3:PutObject" in the Actions array then it is working, did I do it correct?

[@RaddyDev]

It's not the Action, but the Resource that you need to change. You need to add your bucket name, like I did in the video. This line: "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::your-bucket-arn-name/*"

[@sujan_shee]

How can we get the URL after uploading an image to AWS? I mean in the code?

[@RaddyDev]

You can store the file name into your database and then join the URL that Amazon S3 gives you when you create your bucket plus the file name. That would be the full path to a specific file. If you want to list all objects from your bucket, you could look into the command ListObjectV2

[@GeisaGamer]

Do you have a video with typescript?

[@RaddyDev]

I only have JS. Maybe you could ask AI to help you out convert them

[@maxmurakami-moses4728]

Can you create a tutorial with all the privacy things turned on? I don't want anyone on the web to be able to access my files.

[@RaddyDev]

You can turn the privacy ON and nobody is going to be able to access them. If you want to allow access to a specific IP, that's possible too. A good example of how to do this is provided in their documentation, which you can find near the Bucket Policy text area.

[@nhanhuynh1845]

hey bro, when I click to Object URL of the image after uploaded in s3, it will auto download but i just want it to show the image. How can I fix it?

[@RaddyDev]

This sound like a browser setting problem to me. Can you try on another browser to see if the images open instead of download directly? It's probably a setting that you can change easily

[@nhanhuynh1845]

​@@RaddyDevtks I fixed it, I missed property ContentType when put command 😅

[@Wannabvlogger]

Thank you so much for this , can we go ahead one more step and show the data already stored in aws bucket in our frontend ?? Then i can make a porn web i guess i can put all the video manuallly in s3 and then i just have to show them in frontend Pls reply

[@saulotarsobc]

+1

[@suonvansak]

when deployed is not working 😢

[@RaddyDev]

Where did you deploy? It should work under any Node.js setup such as Render, Nginx/PM2, Docker, DigitalOcean App, Dokku, CapRover, Coolify, etc.

[@berndeveloper]

why you ppl use .js instead of .ts? we waste our time with js, real apps don't work with js, TS PAY, not JS!