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Setting Up Ghost with S3 Storage Using ghost-storage-adapter-s3: Part 2

If you haven't read Part 1 of this series it can be found here Setting Up Ghost with S3 Storage Using ghost-storage-adapter-s3: Part 1 Amazon CloudFront is a powerful CDN for speeding up content delivery. By default, when you create a distribution, AWS gives you a long, autogenerated domain like: d1234abcdef.cloudfront.net That works fine, but it’s not user-friendly. For production, you’ll usually want to use your own domain — for example, content.yoursite.com — so your assets are delivered u
Andrew Townsend
Andrew Townsend
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AWS, Infrastructure, Home Lab

Setting Up Ghost with S3 Storage Using ghost-storage-adapter-s3: Part 1

By default, Ghost stores uploaded images and media locally on the same server that runs Ghost. That works fine for small blogs, but if you want to run Ghost in a scalable environment (like Docker, Kubernetes, or multiple servers behind a load balancer), you’ll quickly run into problems. To make Ghost more flexible, you can use Amazon S3 (or an S3-compatible service like MinIO, DigitalOcean Spaces, or Backblaze B2) for media storage. This decouples your storage from the Ghost instance, ensuring
Andrew Townsend
Andrew Townsend
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