@andybelldesign @Netlify You could use Netlify Large Media (also supported by @NetlifyCMS) to manage those images assets into S3 on your behalf. That way the images stay out of your repo and you could even have Netlify do optimisations and transformations for you on the fly!
https://www.netlify.com/products/large-media/
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