Display image with external source in iOS with Cordova

All I'm trying to do is display the following image with the source set to an external location (AWS S3) in an iOS emulator using Ionic/Cordova/Angular:

<img src="https://miyagi-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/madeline-profile"/>

I've tried the following:

1) Added AmazonAWS to Cordova's whitelist, but I'm pretty it's already covered by the first line:

<access origin="*"/> <!-- existing -->
<access origin="*.amazonaws.*" />  <!-- added this -->

2) Tried removing the protocol altogether like so:

<img src="miyagi-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/madeline-profile"/>

3) Tried using a different image from a standard http protocol:

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Portrait_placeholder.png"/>

4) Tried using ng-src instead of src:

<img ng-src="https://miyagi-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/madeline-profile"/>

Full Page for Reference:

<ion-view class="has-header" view-title="Create Class">
  <ion-content>
    <form>
      <div>
        <label for="ClassName">Class Name: </label>
        <input type="text" name="name" ng-model="classInformation.name" required>
      </div>

      <div>
        <label for="ClassPhoto">Class Photo: </label>
        <div class="button" ng-file-select ng-file-change="upload($files)" ng-multiple="multiple">Select File</div>
        <img src="https://miyagi-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/madeline-profile" height="150px"/>
      </div>

      <div>
        <label for="description">description: </label>
        <input type="text" name="description" ng-model="classInformation.description" required>
      </div>

      <div>
        <label for="rate">rate: </label>
        <input type="text" name="rate" ng-model="classInformation.rate" required>
      </div>

      <div>
        <label for="date">date: </label>
        <input type="text" name="date" ng-click="setDate()" ng-model="classInformation.date" required>
      </div>

      <div>
        <label for="time">time: </label>
        <input type="text" name="time" ng-click="setTime()" ng-model="classInformation.time" required>
      </div>

      <div>
        <label for="location">location: </label>
        <input type="text" name="location" ng-model="classInformation.location" required>
      </div>

      <button type="submit" value="Submit" ng-click="createClass()">Create Class</button>
    </form>
  </ion-content>
</ion-view>