[dyogenez]

This sounds like a solid next step. I’d like to stop storing URLs we don’t control in our DB and share URLs to these images behind a CDN. We could slowly roll that out and update each image url in our database over time with both continuing to work.

I didn’t realize you could do this with a private bucket by granting it access either. That combined with IP throttling at the CDN level might be a good replacement for this and cut out the need for Rails.