How to set up AWS S3 in Django?

How to set up AWS S3 in Django?

AWS S3 in Django

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Gaurav Sharma
May 31, 2022·

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In Django, we can use AWS S3 for two common things:

  • For user uploaded files/images
  • For Django static files

Before we cover both the use cases, let’s install a third party package, we’ll be using this third party package named django-storages in this blog.

Let’s install:

pip install django-storages

For user uploaded files/images:

Put this code in your project’s settings.py file:

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage'

# AWS Credentials 

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "PASTE IT HERE"

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = "PASTE IT HERE"

AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = "PASTE IT HERE"

For Django static files:

For storing the Django static files in S3 bucket, the procedure is same as above, you just have to add this extra config in your settings.py file.

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3StaticStorage'

And you are good to go now, run the collectstatic command.

Any doubts? Write it down in the comments.

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