title: Using Amazon S3 bucket or Cloudfront for storing product images - Magento
body: <p>I am setting up a big ecommerce website having a million products onto Magento CE 1.9.3.4 (each product having 3-4 images on average)</p>
  
  <p><strong>My purpose</strong> is to ease mp VPS file system load by putting my /media/ folder onto S3 bucket. I have achieved this using this extension. <a href="https://github.com/thaiphan/magento-s3/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/thaiphan/magento-s3/</a></p>
  
  <p><strong>Problem</strong>
  If the media files are not found on S3 (usually cache or may be some other), the request should be sent to Magento web server. But its not happening. Am i missing something in S3 configuration or in above extension?</p>
  
  <p>I had also tried S3FS-FUSE, with this extension also, i faced the same problem with RSYNC. Due to slow rsync &amp; amazon CLI even, it takes time to sync cache images.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Probable alternative i found but i don't understand:-</strong>
  <a href="http://inchoo.net/magento/set-up-cdn-in-magento/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://inchoo.net/magento/set-up-cdn-in-magento/</a></p>
  
  <p><strong>I just want to ask two simple queries:-</strong>
  1) Am i missing any configuration to resolve this cache images issue? or any troubleshooting guidance will be really helpful</p>
  
  <p>2) Do you think, using above alternative (cloudfront) will solve my purpose of easing the VPS load for images? Because what i know about cloudfront is, it is helpful for global websites, (my website is country specific, so going for S3)</p>