title: How to improve slow uploading to Amazon S3
body: <p>I am in the process of converting a website to upload user submitted photos and videos directly to Amazon S3 instead of to the local server. </p>
  
  <p>When I worked with small image files, it seemed fine... but now that I try with larger images say over 1MB, the upload speed is too slow and unusable. </p>
  
  <p>What are the common strategies to overcome this? Do websites like YouTube first upload to their local server and then move to Google Cloud or something? If I have thousands of users uploading at the same time, my local server won't be able to store so many files hence I was moving to S3 before realising how slow it was.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions please?</p>