If you value time over money, you could also use Uppy in conjunction with Transloadit, our company can handle uploading, encoding, and exporting to S3 for you,

If you value time over money, you could also use Uppy in conjunction with Transloadit, our company can handle uploading, encoding, and exporting to S3 for you, too. If you want to save money then yes, you could configure direct S3 uploading with Uppy, we do have better examples fot that these days (e.g. we now also show back-end code for signing the requests) However it seems you got it working now so maybe no reason to change?