Amazon S3 for WordPress
Allows you to mirror your WordPress media uploads over to Amazon S3 for storage and delivery.
5(3 reviews)
·90 active installs·Updated 17 years agoAs of April 2026, Amazon S3 for WordPress is a WordPress s3 plugin with 90 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 26K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 17 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Offload Media Lite for Amazon S3….
5/53 reviews
90active installs
26K+total downloads
18 yearssince 2008
Overview
This WordPress plugin allows you to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog.
Amazon S3 is a cheap and cost effective way to scale your site to easily handle large spikes in traffic (such as from Digg) without having to go through the expense of setting up the infrastructure for a content delivery network.
Once setup, this plugin transparently integrates with your WordPress blog. File uploads are automatically saved into your Amazon S3 bucket without any extra steps. Once saved, these files will be delivered by Amazon S3, instead of your web host. Any image thumbnails that get created are saved to Amazon S3 too. You’ll also find an “Amazon S3” tab next to your regular “Upload” tab, which allows you to easily…
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| WordPress | 2.3+ requiredTested up to 2.7 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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