# Use Images from s3 as Overlay

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/use-images-from-s3-as-overlay/36988>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [July 22, 2016, 11:47am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/use-images-from-s3-as-overlay/36988 "2016-07-22T11:47:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Orth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mike\_Orth](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mike_Orth)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 11:47am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/use-images-from-s3-as-overlay/36988/1 "2016-07-22T11:47:13Z")

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I am using in WSE 4.5 and running the ModuleTranscoderOverlayExample. Image overlays work fine when they exist in the content dir (), but how can I get it to pull from an s3 bucket?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Mike\_Orth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mike\_Orth](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mike_Orth)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/use-images-from-s3-as-overlay/36988/2 "2016-07-26T08:29:55Z")

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In the example, the overlay path is set to VHostConfigHome

```auto
String artworkPath = "${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/content/";

```

However, my path needs to be a bucket in S3. So the idea would conceptually be something like the below example:

```auto
String artworkPath = "http://external.url.for.s3.amazonaws/myContent/"; // points to s3 base path

```

I’ve poured through the documentation but have not found anything that matches this use case.

- Is using s3 for image overlays possible?
- Alternatively, could this possibly be done using a MediaCache store for S3 to pull the images to overlay, and if so, how?

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**Author:** ![Andy\_Engberson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/andy_engberson/32/392_2.png) [@Andy\_Engberson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andy_Engberson)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/use-images-from-s3-as-overlay/36988/3 "2016-08-25T00:43:28Z")

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Hello,

There is not a way to configure that. You will need to have those overlay images stored locally, in your application’s content folder.

You can’t use media cache prefixes in configuration file paths, they are only used when receiving playback requests.

Regards,

Andy\_E