# Inquiry About Discourse’s Support for Amazon S3 Storage

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/inquiry-about-discourse-s-support-for-amazon-s3-storage/386720
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** uploads, s3
**Created:** [October 25, 2025, 9:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inquiry-about-discourse-s-support-for-amazon-s3-storage/386720 "2025-10-25T09:51:06Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inquiry-about-discourse-s-support-for-amazon-s3-storage/386720/10 "2025-10-28T14:51:48Z")

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If your friend had followed [Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-an-s3-compatible-object-storage-provider-for-uploads/148916) you’d not see `enable_s3_uploads`. It’s unclear whether setting those in the database rather than ENV is part of the problem.

That’s not the same as `Enable direct S3 uploads `. That’s “Enable **direct** S3 uploads”

You also need to change `Max image size KB ` and `Max attachment size KB `

But I changed my max upload to 100MB and tried to uplaod a 37MB file and got the “file is too big” error, so you may be right that there is a bug. I’ve not updated the site where I tested in a while.

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