Python FastAPI Tutorial (Part 16): AWS S3 and Boto3 - Moving File Uploads to the Cloud

In this video, we'll be learning how to make our file storage production-ready by moving uploaded images from local disk into AWS S3. We'll walk through creating an S3 bucket, configuring the bucket policy and IAM permissions, and integrating boto3 into our FastAPI application. We'll also refactor our image processing to separate it from the storage layer and handle boto3's blocking calls properly in our async app. By the end of the video, you'll have a production-ready file storage setup that can scale beyond a single server. Let's get started... The code from this video can be found here: h…