Can someone recommend some tutorials or resources for this?

I haven't seen something like that, but I advise you to read the documentation and try. It is super simple.

@nickcourage S3 is just an object store. There’s no “associating” it with a user in your application. You read and write objects (file); nothing more.

If you want to associate an object with a user, then you’d store a reference to the object and your user in your own database.

Laravel’s filesystem component has S3 support out of the box. You just need to set the relevant values in your config/filesystems.php file and set the default driver from local to s3. You can then upload user-submitted files just like any other file:

<input type="file" name="resume" />

$path = $request->file('resume')->store('resumes');

This will return the path the object was stored in (i.e. resumes/somerandomhash.docx) which you can then save to your database along with the authenticated user’s ID:

$request->user()->resumes()->create([
    'path' => $path,
]);

Documentation:

• https://laravel.com/docs/master/filesystem#configuration
• https://laravel.com/docs/master/requests#storing-uploaded-files

@bugsysha @martinbean Thank you both for your replies - That's given me a better insight than before I asked! @martinbean that would explain why I've not been able to find much and it's obvious that I need spend some more time studying it. Thank you although I'm still unsure about how you would make these private but then accessible to particular users...