<p>Nope, credit goes to this SO answer, still valid today: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/10495195/4495081">How to upload files directly to Amazon S3 from a remote server?</a>.</p>

<p>But if you have a server in the cloud, ideally in AWS, it'll probably go faster to execute the copy operations on that server - higher bandwidth and lower latency to/from such server when compared to your computer.</p>

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Dan Cornilescu
<p>I'm going through some steps documented in <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/upload-objects.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">How Do I Upload Files and Folders to an S3 Bucket?</a> to get my ova into S3. Seems like a waste of time for me to download it and then upload it, is there a mechanism to import an S3 object from a web resource? </p>

<p>I have a UCS Director job that builds OVAs for me, uploads them to a Cassandra big data cluster and serves out obfuscated links for me and customers to download them - I'd like to provide said obfuscated link to AWS instead of downloading it on my computer and uploading it to S3.  In the end, I think I could just make my images go straight from UCS Director to AWS, but for the time being, I'd like to save a step.</p>

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Is it possible to load an image into S3 via an URL?
Peter Turner
# Is it possible to load an image into S3 via an URL?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-03-13)

I'm going through some steps documented in [How Do I Upload Files and Folders to an S3 Bucket?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/upload-objects.html) to get my ova into S3. Seems like a waste of time for me to download it and then upload it, is there a mechanism to import an S3 object from a web resource?

I have a UCS Director job that builds OVAs for me, uploads them to a Cassandra big data cluster and serves out obfuscated links for me and customers to download them - I'd like to provide said obfuscated link to AWS instead of downloading it on my computer and uploading it to S3. In the end, I think I could just make my images go straight from UCS Director to AWS, but for the time being, I'd like to save a step.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-03-13. Score: 3

Nope, credit goes to this SO answer, still valid today: [How to upload files directly to Amazon S3 from a remote server?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/10495195/4495081).

But if you have a server in the cloud, ideally in AWS, it'll probably go faster to execute the copy operations on that server - higher bandwidth and lower latency to/from such server when compared to your computer.


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