Hello,

I’m hosting my images on Amazon S3 and using Invision Community with a custom domain.

I’ve noticed that when I upload an image, the original link looks like this:
https://mydomain/uploads/monthly_2025_10/image.thumb.png.d9f939safasfasfasff05f7ad7e3bb6f507864cdb4c4.png

However, when I copy or share this link, it automatically changes to:
https://media.invisioncic.com/w315980/monthly_2025_10/image.thumb.png.d9f939safasfasfasff05f7ad7e3bb6f507864cdb4c4.png

I want to understand why this happens — is the link rewrite caused by:

• an Invision configuration, or

• something related to Amazon S3 / CDN settings?

My goal is to keep all image URLs under my own domain (mydomain.com/uploads/...) instead of being rewritten to the media.invisioncic.com domain.

Could someone please explain the reason for this behavior and how to configure it properly?

Thank you very much for your time and help!

Edited October 16, 2025Oct 16 by SKky

Addresses for items on our platform would indeed be via the invisioncic link, as this is where items are located on our network

To put in a real-world analogy of what you're asking, its like having 2 different homes in two different cities having the same exact address. Its simply not possible or would cause a slew of problems. The media storage and our Cloud platform operate at different locations thus need a different "address" (aka a subdomain). You could use your own Amazon S3 storage but you also would need to operate at a subdomain, thus, giving it that different address (going back to the home analogy).