How to make a post using a file that was manually uploaded to the web server or S3 bucket?

![small-funny-video|video](upload://AbCdEf132456.mp4) is a markdown syntax where the URL can be placed inside the parentheses. You don’t need to necessarily use a link that starts with upload://.

For your situation, you can first generate a direct link to the file in your S3 bucket, for example, https://discourse-bucket.example.com/manual-uploads/funny-video.webm, and then in the editor, you would fill in ![large-funny-video|video](https://discourse-bucket.example.com/manual-uploads/funny-video.webm).