django-storages with multiple S3 Buckets

Question

I am using AWS and I will have different buckets in my application. I am also using Django-Storages. Is there a way to specify which bucket I want to upload the file to (for

Answer 1

Another solution if you want to specify bucket on the runtime, you can do so before invoking the save() method on the model.

Following the above example:

from django.db import models
from storages.backends.s3boto import S3BotoStorage

class MyModel(models.Model):
    file_1 = models.FileField() # Uses default storage
    file_2 = models.FileField()

In views when saving the model, you can specify the storage on that field.

my_file_model = MyModel()
my_file_model.file_2.storage = S3BotoStorage(bucket="your-bucket-name")
my_file_model.save()

In this way file_2 will be saved in the bucket you specify where file_1 will use your default bucket.