Cloudflare configuration with Heroku and Amazon S3

Question

I'm new in this, and I'm trying to figure out what's the proper solution. I've got website that is mostly serving a little text content and mostly images. Thus I'd like to use cloudflare for caching.

Hosting for my application is Heroku. I know that Heroku doesn't provide storage for static data like images, that's why it's required to use Amazon S3.

For now I'd like to use free cloudflare account(s). Please verify if my thinking is correct.

CloudFlare account1 -> caching for www.mysite.com (main domain for my app) which would cache css,js, and whatever is static on the website

CloudFlare account2 -> caching for smthsmth.myaccountname.s3.amazon.com (caching for images so that I don't have to pay too much to amazon for transfering my images)

Or it should be done in some other manner?

Answer 1

Can you clarify why you need 2 different CloudFlare accounts? I don't follow there. We have details here: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168926-How-do-I-use-CloudFlare-with-Amazon-s-S3-Service- about how to use CloudFlare in front of your Amazon S3 bucket to save bandwidth and requests (and $$).