intermediate~2.5h
Design an Image Upload & Processing Service on AWS
A worked system-design example for an image-heavy application — direct-to-S3 upload via pre-signed URLs, asynchronous thumbnail/resize processing via Lambda, and content moderation.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Design the direct-to-S3 upload flow that keeps large image files off the application server
- •Explain how S3 event notifications drive asynchronous image processing
- •Design for multiple output sizes (thumbnail, medium, full) without blocking the upload response
- •Incorporate content moderation into the pipeline without adding synchronous latency
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