# How to set up AWS S3 in Django?

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:

```bash
pip install django-storages
```

# For user uploaded files/images:

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

```bash
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.

```bash
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3StaticStorage'
```

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

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