Secure uploading of files from an iOS or Android app to S3
Most of the mobile applications these days require some form of a backend. Usually it is used for something trivial, like maintaining user profiles, settings and scores etc. However, most often than not, the application needs to upload some files to your server. The following tutorial will show how to do it securely and efficiently using AWS S3. Why spawn powerful servers that can handle huge amounts of traffic when all they do is get the files and store them on S3 anyway? Files can be uploaded to S3 directly, and S3 infrastructure can scale with our application and adjust to the amounts of traffic required. All we need to do is implement a simple lightweight API endpoint that will instruct the client where to upload the heavy things and let S3 do the heavy lifting.
