# Migrating uploads to s3 does not work with private bucket

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-uploads-to-s3-does-not-work-with-private-bucket/94591>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 13, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-uploads-to-s3-does-not-work-with-private-bucket/94591 "2018-08-13T10:41:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-uploads-to-s3-does-not-work-with-private-bucket/94591/6 "2018-08-22T06:08:30Z")

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I am against a site setting here, an extensibility point so you can create a plugin to inject this is OK. But I do not want to complicate our already extremely complicated S3 site settings with yet another very extremely specific mega enterprisey kind of setting that even I am struggling really hard to get my head around.

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