Presigned URLによるS3への直接アップロード
APIから短期間有効なpresigned URLを発行し、大容量アップロードをオブジェクトストレージに移します
「Presigned URLによるS3への直接アップロード」はCoddyKit上の無料NestJS Enterprise Backend APIsレッスンです。 これはレッスン3/4です。 下記で完全なレッスンを無料で読むことができます。その後、ブラウザ内の組み込みコードエディタと24時間対応のAIチューターでハンズオン演習できます。 これはNestJS Enterprise Backend APIs学習パスの一部であり、ウェブとCoddyKitアプリ全体で進捗が同期されます。 NestJS Enterprise Backend APIsコースには全4レッスンが含まれています。
このレッスンの一部はまだ翻訳されておらず、英語で表示されています。
Why Not Proxy Uploads Through the API?
When a client uploads a large file, the naive design sends the bytes to your NestJS API, which then forwards them to object storage. This makes your server a bottleneck.
- Memory & CPU pressure — every upload occupies a request thread and buffers/streams through your process.
- Doubled bandwidth — bytes travel client → API → S3, so you pay for the same data twice.
- Request timeouts — load balancers (e.g. ALB, Nginx) cap request duration; multi-GB uploads stall.
The fix: let the browser upload directly to S3. Your API only issues a short-lived, signed URL that grants permission for one specific operation.
What Is a Presigned URL?
A presigned URL is a normal S3 object URL with extra query parameters that encode a temporary, cryptographically-signed grant. Anyone holding the URL can perform exactly one operation (e.g. PutObject) on exactly one key, until it expires.
- Signed with your AWS credentials, but the credentials are never exposed — only the signature is.
- Scoped to a single HTTP method, bucket, and object key.
- Has a hard expiry (seconds), after which S3 rejects it with
403.
Because S3 validates the signature itself, your API does not touch the file bytes at all.
The Upload Flow
The end-to-end flow has three actors: the browser, your NestJS API, and S3.
- 1. Request: Browser asks the API, "I want to upload
avatar.png, 240 KB, image/png." - 2. Sign: API validates the request, generates a unique key, and returns a presigned
PUTURL. - 3. Upload: Browser
PUTs the raw bytes straight to that URL on S3. - 4. Confirm: Browser tells the API the upload succeeded; API persists the key in the database.
Your API stays fast and stateless — it never proxies the payload.
Configuring the S3 Client
Use the AWS SDK v3 modular packages. Create a single S3Client instance and share it via a NestJS provider so credentials and region are configured in one place.
Credentials come from environment variables (or, in production, an IAM role). Never hardcode them.
import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
import { ConfigService } from '@nestjs/config';
import { S3Client } from '@aws-sdk/client-s3';
@Injectable()
export class S3Provider {
readonly client: S3Client;
readonly bucket: string;
constructor(private readonly config: ConfigService) {
this.bucket = config.getOrThrow<string>('S3_BUCKET');
this.client = new S3Client({
region: config.getOrThrow<string>('AWS_REGION'),
credentials: {
accessKeyId: config.getOrThrow<string>('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
secretAccessKey: config.getOrThrow<string>('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
},
});
}
}Generating a Presigned PUT URL
The @aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner package signs a command without executing it. You build a PutObjectCommand describing the target key and content type, then call getSignedUrl with an expiresIn.
- ContentType in the command is enforced: the browser must send a matching
Content-Typeheader. - expiresIn is in seconds — keep it short (60–300s) so leaked URLs die quickly.
import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
import { PutObjectCommand } from '@aws-sdk/client-s3';
import { getSignedUrl } from '@aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner';
import { S3Provider } from './s3.provider';
@Injectable()
export class UploadsService {
constructor(private readonly s3: S3Provider) {}
async createUploadUrl(key: string, contentType: string): Promise<string> {
const command = new PutObjectCommand({
Bucket: this.s3.bucket,
Key: key,
ContentType: contentType,
});
return getSignedUrl(this.s3.client, command, { expiresIn: 120 });
}
}Generating Safe, Unique Object Keys
Never trust the client's filename as the S3 key. A user could send ../../etc/passwd or collide with another user's file. Generate the key server-side.
- Namespace by owner:
uploads/{userId}/...so authorization is easy to reason about. - Use a random UUID to guarantee uniqueness.
- Preserve only a sanitized extension for content-type hints and tooling.
import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto';
import { extname } from 'node:path';
function buildObjectKey(userId: string, originalName: string): string {
const ext = extname(originalName).toLowerCase().replace(/[^.a-z0-9]/g, '');
const safeExt = /^\.[a-z0-9]{1,8}$/.test(ext) ? ext : '';
return `uploads/${userId}/${randomUUID()}${safeExt}`;
}
console.log(buildObjectKey('user-42', 'My Vacation Photo.PNG'));
console.log(buildObjectKey('user-42', 'sneaky/../../etc/passwd'));The Controller Endpoint
Expose a guarded endpoint that takes the file metadata, validates it with a DTO, and returns the presigned URL plus the final key. The client needs the key later to confirm or to build the public/read URL.
Authentication matters here: the signing endpoint is your access-control gate. S3 itself trusts any valid signature, so all checks (who, what size, what type) must happen before you sign.
import { Body, Controller, Post, UseGuards, Req } from '@nestjs/common';
import { JwtAuthGuard } from '../auth/jwt-auth.guard';
import { UploadsService } from './uploads.service';
import { CreateUploadDto } from './dto/create-upload.dto';
@UseGuards(JwtAuthGuard)
@Controller('uploads')
export class UploadsController {
constructor(private readonly uploads: UploadsService) {}
@Post('presign')
async presign(@Req() req, @Body() dto: CreateUploadDto) {
return this.uploads.presignForUser(req.user.id, dto);
}
}Validating the Upload Request DTO
Validate metadata before signing. Reject disallowed MIME types and oversized files at the API layer — but remember the client could lie, so this is a first line of defense, not the last.
- Whitelist
contentTypeagainst an allow-list. - Cap the declared
sizeto fail fast on obviously huge uploads.
import { IsIn, IsInt, IsString, Max, Min } from 'class-validator';
const ALLOWED = ['image/png', 'image/jpeg', 'image/webp', 'application/pdf'] as const;
export class CreateUploadDto {
@IsString()
filename: string;
@IsIn(ALLOWED)
contentType: (typeof ALLOWED)[number];
@IsInt()
@Min(1)
@Max(10 * 1024 * 1024) // 10 MB
size: number;
}Enforcing Size with a Signed Content-Length
The DTO size check is advisory — the browser still controls how many bytes it actually PUTs. To make S3 itself reject oversized uploads, bind a content-length range into the signature.
For a single PUT, sign ContentLength so S3 enforces an exact byte count. For more flexible limits (a min/max range), use a presigned POST policy instead, which supports content-length-range conditions.
import { createPresignedPost } from '@aws-sdk/s3-presigned-post';
async function presignPost(client, bucket: string, key: string) {
return createPresignedPost(client, {
Bucket: bucket,
Key: key,
Conditions: [
['content-length-range', 1, 10 * 1024 * 1024], // 1 byte – 10 MB
['starts-with', '$Content-Type', 'image/'],
],
Fields: { 'Content-Type': 'image/png' },
Expires: 120,
});
}The Browser-Side Upload
With the presigned PUT URL in hand, the browser uploads with a plain fetch. There is no SDK and no AWS credentials on the client — just the bytes and a matching Content-Type.
- The header must equal the
ContentTypeyou signed, or S3 returns403 SignatureDoesNotMatch. - Do not send
Authorization— the signature lives in the query string.
async function uploadFile(presignedUrl: string, file: File): Promise<void> {
const res = await fetch(presignedUrl, {
method: 'PUT',
headers: { 'Content-Type': file.type },
body: file,
});
if (!res.ok) {
throw new Error(`Upload failed: ${res.status} ${res.statusText}`);
}
}Confirming the Upload & Reading Back
Because S3 doesn't notify your API, the client calls back after a successful PUT so you can persist the key. For extra safety, the API can HeadObject to verify the object truly exists and check its real size/type before trusting it.
To serve the file later, either keep the bucket private and issue a presigned GET URL on demand, or (for public assets) store and return the public URL.
import { GetObjectCommand, HeadObjectCommand } from '@aws-sdk/client-s3';
import { getSignedUrl } from '@aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner';
async confirm(userId: string, key: string) {
const head = await this.s3.client.send(
new HeadObjectCommand({ Bucket: this.s3.bucket, Key: key }),
);
if ((head.ContentLength ?? 0) > 10 * 1024 * 1024) {
throw new BadRequestException('Object exceeds size limit');
}
await this.files.save({ userId, key, size: head.ContentLength });
}
async downloadUrl(key: string) {
return getSignedUrl(
this.s3.client,
new GetObjectCommand({ Bucket: this.s3.bucket, Key: key }),
{ expiresIn: 300 },
);
}Quick Check
Test your understanding of where access control lives in this pattern.
Recap
You learned how to offload heavy uploads to S3 using presigned URLs:
- Why: proxying bytes through the API wastes bandwidth, memory, and hits request timeouts.
- How: the API signs a short-lived
PutObjectCommandwithgetSignedUrl; the browserPUTs straight to S3. - Keys: always generate them server-side (UUID + namespaced by user); never trust client filenames.
- Security: the presign endpoint is the access-control gate — authenticate, whitelist MIME types, and cap size there. Use presigned POST
content-length-rangeto let S3 enforce size. - After upload: confirm with
HeadObject, persist the key, and serve later via presignedGetObjectCommandURLs.
よくある質問
「Presigned URLによるS3への直接アップロード」レッスンは無料ですか?
はい。「Presigned URLによるS3への直接アップロード」の完全なテキストはこのウェブで無料で読めます。インタラクティブに演習し(組み込みコードエディタと24時間対応のAIチューター)、NestJS Enterprise Backend APIsコースの残りをアンロックするには、CoddyKit PROにアップグレードしてください。 NestJS Enterprise Backend APIsコースには全4レッスンが含まれています。
「Presigned URLによるS3への直接アップロード」で何を学びますか?
APIから短期間有効なpresigned URLを発行し、大容量アップロードをオブジェクトストレージに移します ブラウザで直接実行するハンズオンコードでNestJS Enterprise Backend APIsを演習し、24時間対応のAIチューターがレッスンを進める中での質問に答えます。
NestJS Enterprise Backend APIsを始めるのに経験は必要ですか?
事前経験は必要ありません。CoddyKitのNestJS Enterprise Backend APIsは初級者から上級者向けに構成されているため、ここから始めるか最初から始めて、自分のペースで進むことができます。 これはレッスン3/4です。
「Presigned URLによるS3への直接アップロード」レッスンにはどのくらい時間がかかりますか?
ほとんどのCoddyKitレッスンは約5~10分かかります。各レッスンはコンパクトでインタラクティブなので、着実に進歩し、ウェブとアプリ全体で正確に前回の場所から再開できます。
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