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File and Media Management in Vision Workflows

Shawn Wilborne
August 27, 2025
8
min read

Developers building computer vision applications face unique challenges when managing images and videos at scale. This guide covers the end-to-end pipeline—from efficient front-end ingestion to scalable cloud storage and metadata retrieval—using Amazon S3 for storage, Amazon CloudFront for delivery, and MongoDB for metadata. Along the way we’ll use best practices like presigned URLs for secure direct-to-S3 uploads (how they work and why to use them; offloading traffic from your servers), multipart uploads for large files (retries + parallel parts), scalable S3 bucket structure and performance (modern best practices), CloudFront for low-latency delivery (edge caching + security), and a MongoDB schema for vision annotations and search (sample JSON patterns and indexing ideas).

Challenges in Ingesting Vision Files at Scale

Vision data arrives from many places: web clients, mobile/IoT devices, and backend pipelines. You need to handle big files, high concurrency, flaky networks, and keep each file linked to its metadata. The sections below present a web-first pattern that generalizes well to mobile, IoT, and server-side ingestion.

Web-Based Ingestion with React and Presigned URLs

For browsers, the de-facto pattern is direct-to-S3 uploads via presigned URLs—your backend issues a short-lived URL, and the browser uploads straight to S3, bypassing your servers (security & flow; AWS reference). This offloads bandwidth from your app tier and scales effortlessly.

CORS: Enable a restrictive bucket CORS policy so the browser can PUT/GET from your origin while limiting allowed origins, methods, and headers (what to allow and why).

Large files: Use multipart uploads to split large images/videos into parts for retries and parallelism; libraries like Uppy make this easy in the browser (multipart advice + client tooling). Keep presigned URL expirations short, use HTTPS end-to-end, provide a progress bar, and validate file type/size client-side (security & UX tips).

Auth & access: Issue presigned URLs only to authenticated users via your API; you can embed content-type and key constraints in the signature to tightly scope each upload (AWS pattern).

Mobile and IoT Upload Considerations

Mobile (native / React Native) can use the same presigned URL pattern (example walkthrough), but emphasize pause/resume, background uploads, and offline queues. IoT devices often upload continuously; use idempotent keys, retries, and consider S3 Transfer Acceleration to improve global upload throughput via the AWS edge network (performance guide incl. acceleration & request-rate scaling).

Backend Pipelines and Automated Ingestion

Server-side jobs can upload directly with AWS SDKs (no presigned URLs/CORS). For mass ingestion, parallelize uploads; S3 automatically scales request throughput and no longer requires manual key hashing across prefixes (modern request-rate & prefix guidance). Implement retries with backoff and let SDKs handle multipart under the hood. Use S3 events to trigger downstream processing (e.g., Lambda fan-out).

Using Amazon S3 for Scalable Media Storage

Bucket organization: Separate by environment/project; use readable prefixes for lifecycle and access control (performance & structure notes).
Naming: Stable, unique keys (e.g., UUID or DB ID) make joining to metadata trivial.
Versioning: Turn on S3 Versioning to recover from accidental overwrites/deletes (how it works). Combine with lifecycle rules to archive or expire older versions (managing versions at scale).
Lifecycle & cost: Transition cold media to Glacier, auto-abort incomplete multipart uploads, or use Intelligent-Tiering.
Security & compliance: Keep buckets private, use least privilege, server-side encryption, and OAI/CloudFront signed URLs for access control. S3 is HIPAA-eligible and widely used in medical imaging workflows (healthcare example & compliance posture).

Accelerating Delivery with CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront caches media at global edge locations, slashing latency and offloading your S3 origin (benefits overview). Keep S3 private behind an Origin Access Identity and gate access with CloudFront signed URLs/cookies (security & scaling patterns). Use sensible TTLs and versioned filenames (or invalidations) for freshness, and take advantage of HTTP/2 and on-the-fly compression for JSON/HTML assets (tuning tips).

Annotated media delivery

  • Client-side overlays: Fetch raw media via CloudFront, fetch annotation JSON from your API, and render overlays in canvas/SVG.
  • Pre-rendered assets: Generate annotated images or downscaled clips server-side and cache them as separate objects.
  • Dynamic edge transforms: Only if necessary, use Lambda@Edge/Functions for lightweight adaptations—but precomputation is usually more economical.

Handling Large Video Datasets and Streaming

  • Multipart ingestion: For big videos, orchestrate S3 multipart uploads (client-side or via a thin backend) so failed parts can be retried and uploads can run in parallel (practical notes + Uppy).
  • Transcoding: On object-created, trigger MediaConvert via Lambda to produce HLS/DASH streams, thumbnails, or lower-res copies for review (reference pipeline).
  • Lifecycle & hygiene: Transition archives to Glacier and auto-abort incomplete multipart uploads to avoid orphaned parts (lifecycle guidance).
  • Playback: Serve HLS playlists and segments through CloudFront; protect with signed URLs when required.

Linking Media with Metadata — MongoDB for Vision Data

Use S3 for binaries and MongoDB for metadata. Store the S3 key or CloudFront path in your document model rather than the raw bytes—this keeps the DB lean and queryable (community best practice). Example fields: s3_key, width/height/format, annotations (arrays of label/bbox/confidence), status, timestamps, and optional embedding.

Query patterns & indexing: MongoDB’s document model supports querying arrays (e.g., annotations.label: "car") and deep indexes for common filters and sorts (schema & index examples). For embeddings, you can store vectors in MongoDB for lineage and leverage a specialized vector index elsewhere if your scale/latency demands it (trade-offs & hybrid approach).

Granularity:

  • Embed small annotation arrays directly in the image doc (simple reads/updates).
  • Use a separate annotations collection for massive or highly dynamic edits (better at huge cardinalities) (design guidance).

Secure downloads: Store keys, not public URLs, and generate time-limited URLs when users request media (e.g., Lambda returns a fresh S3/CloudFront signed URL) (download pattern in React apps).

GridFS exists, but when S3 is available, most teams prefer external object storage plus DB references for performance and simplicity (discussion & trade-offs).

Use Cases and Scenarios

  • Medical Imaging Repository: HIPAA-eligible S3 for secure storage, lifecycle to Glacier, CloudFront for global delivery, and MongoDB for patient-linked metadata and AI results (S3 in medical imaging).
  • Drone Surveillance & Mapping: Remote uploads (consider Transfer Acceleration), auto-transcoding and key-frame extraction, CloudFront playback, and MongoDB for anomaly records and geo-tags (S3 performance & acceleration guide).
  • Annotation & Labeling Platform: Direct-to-S3 uploads, Lambda thumbnails, CloudFront for fast UI, and MongoDB schemas optimized for annotation search and workflow states (JSON schema patterns for CV).
  • Mobile Document Scanning: Presigned uploads with offline queue/retry, OCR results stored in MongoDB, private bucket behind CloudFront signed URLs (React Native presigned upload; CloudFront security patterns).

Conclusion

By combining presigned direct-to-S3 uploads (secure pattern), multipart transfer for big files (practical approach), thoughtful S3 organization and lifecycle/versioning (AWS best practices; versioning & recovery), CloudFront for global delivery (low-latency edges + signed access), and MongoDB for rich, queryable metadata (schema ideas; store keys not bytes), you’ll have a robust, scalable vision data backbone that serves both backend pipelines and user-facing apps—today and at much larger scale tomorrow.

URL Index

  1. Handling Large File Uploads in React with S3 Presigned URLs — PullRequest
    https://www.pullrequest.com/blog/handling-large-file-uploads-in-react-securely-using-aws-s3-pre-signed-urls/
  2. Uploading to S3 directly from web/mobile — AWS Compute Blog
    https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/uploading-to-amazon-s3-directly-from-a-web-or-mobile-application/
  3. Best way to upload video via a presigned URL to S3 — Stack Overflow
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71418629/best-way-to-upload-video-via-a-presigned-url-to-s3
  4. Uploading files from React Native to an S3 presigned URL — dev.to
    https://dev.to/ajulibe/uploading-files-from-react-native-to-an-s3-presigned-url-2ab7
  5. Optimizing Amazon S3 performance (request rates, prefixes, acceleration) — AWS Docs
    https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/optimizing-performance.html
  6. Retaining multiple versions of objects with S3 Versioning — AWS Docs
    https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Versioning.html
  7. Streamline Medical Imaging Workflows with Flywheel on S3 — AWS APN Blog
    https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/streamline-medical-imaging-workflows-with-flywheel-on-amazon-s3/
  8. Amazon CloudFront: Fast and Reliable Content Delivery — CloudOptimo
    https://www.cloudoptimo.com/blog/amazon-cloudfront-a-complete-solution-for-fast-and-reliable-content-delivery/
  9. Streamline Video Encoding with MediaConvert and Lambda — DoiT Engineering
    https://engineering.doit.com/streamline-your-video-encoding-with-aws-elemental-mediaconvert-and-ws-lambda-8c4b3e64d810?gi=0e37d1172fff
  10. Images and metadata on MongoDB (why to store files in S3) — MongoDB Forums
    https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/images-and-metadata-on-mongodb/261703
  11. Designing scalable JSON schemas for CV pipelines — Medium
    https://medium.com/@noel.benji/designing-scalable-json-schemas-for-computer-vision-pipelines-dcddf4e7a9f4
  12. Embedding private media in a React frontend with S3 + Lambda (presigned download) — DMC
    https://www.dmcinfo.com/blog/16076/embedding-private-media-files-securely-in-a-react-frontend-with-amazon-s3-and-aws-lambda/

Written By
Shawn Wilborne
AI Builder