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Case Study

How Factual Minds Improved Image Hosting with Amazon S3 and CloudFront

Challenges

  • High latency and load times for image-heavy pages.
  • Excessive data transfer costs from application servers.
  • Lack of scalability and caching mechanism for static content.
  • Manual storage and retrieval of image assets.
  • Slow checkout pages can lead to timeouts and session issues, undermining PCI compliance and exposing sensitive data.
  • Every second of delay during checkout increases cart abandonment, impacting conversions and customer trust.

Solution Provided by Factual Minds

Factual Minds, an AWS consulting expert, helped the client overcome these hurdles by migrating image storage to Amazon S3 and set up Amazon CloudFront as the CDN.

  • Migrated all image assets to Amazon S3 with organized folder structures.
  • Configured Amazon CloudFront distribution for global content delivery.
  • Integrated S3 URLs and CloudFront caching into the application.
  • Applied optimal cache control headers and object versioning.
  • Delivered implementation documentation and best practices.
  • Image compression to reduce payload and speed up page rendering.
  • Image versioning to avoid manual cache invalidations.
  • IAM role-based policies to restrict and secure access to storage.

Results & Impact

  • Reduced average page load time for image-heavy pages by 40%.
  • Achieved significant savings on outbound data transfer costs.
  • Enabled scalable, serverless image hosting with 99.99% availability.
  • Simplified image management and improved site performance.

Why Choose Factual Minds?

  • Deep expertise in AWS, including S3, CloudFront, and IAM configuration.
  • Full-service implementation—from storage migration to CDN integration.
  • Hands-on optimization of cache behavior, performance tuning, and cost savings.
  • Enabled best practices like image versioning and scalable folder structures

Technology Used

  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • AWS IAM
  • AWS CLI & SDKs
  • Application-side CDN integration

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Client Overview

Our client is a leading cosmetic brand that specializes in organic lip products, formulated without harmful chemicals. The client’s application was serving images directly from the application server file system, resulting in high data transfer costs and slower load times. Factual Minds was brought in to migrate image storage to Amazon S3 and set up Amazon CloudFront as the CDN, aiming to improve performance and reduce costs.

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