Upload Cordova Video to AWS S3

$cordovaCamera.getPicture gives me the File_URI for video, where as the AWS S3 putObject requires the entire data object for upload.

After scouring through several articles, I am not able to find a solution. I have tried several approaches as well.

Has anyone gotten this use-case to work? Please, please help.

Thanks in advance for your help.

FYI - This is an Ionic project that I am working on. I have tried variations with the following so far, 1. FileUpload plugin 2. AWS SDK putObject, and upload 3. Several methods of reading from the URI and creating my own data-object