Enabling versioning on buckets - Amazon Simple Storage Service
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Enabling versioning on buckets

You can use S3 Versioning to keep multiple versions of an object in one bucket. This section provides examples of how to enable versioning on a bucket using the console, REST API, Amazon SDKs, and Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI).

Note

If you enable versioning on a bucket for the first time, it might take up to 15 minutes for the change to be fully propagated. We recommend that you wait for 15 minutes after enabling versioning before issuing write operations (PUT or DELETE) on objects in the bucket. Write operations issued before this conversion is complete may apply to unversioned objects.

For more information about S3 Versioning, see Using versioning in S3 buckets. For information about working with objects that are in versioning-enabled buckets, see Working with objects in a versioning-enabled bucket.

To learn more about how to use S3 Versioning to protect data, see Tutorial: Protecting data on Amazon S3 against accidental deletion or application bugs using S3 Versioning, S3 Object Lock, and S3 Replication.

Each S3 bucket that you create has a versioning subresource associated with it. (For more information, see Bucket configuration options.) By default, your bucket is unversioned, and the versioning subresource stores the empty versioning configuration, as follows.

<VersioningConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"> </VersioningConfiguration>

To enable versioning, you can send a request to Amazon S3 with a versioning configuration that includes a status.

<VersioningConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"> <Status>Enabled</Status> </VersioningConfiguration>

To suspend versioning, you set the status value to Suspended.

The bucket owner and all authorized users can enable versioning. The bucket owner is the Amazon Web Services account that created the bucket (the root account). For more information about permissions, see Identity and access management in Amazon S3.

The following sections provide more detail about enabling S3 Versioning using the console, Amazon CLI, and the Amazon SDKs.

Follow these steps to use the Amazon Web Services Management Console to enable versioning on an S3 bucket.

To enable or disable versioning on an S3 bucket
  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/s3/.

  2. In the Buckets list, choose the name of the bucket that you want to enable versioning for.

  3. Choose Properties.

  4. Under Bucket Versioning, choose Edit.

  5. Choose Suspend or Enable, and then choose Save changes.

Note

You can use Amazon multi-factor authentication (MFA) with versioning. When you use MFA with versioning, you must provide your Amazon Web Services account’s access keys and a valid code from the account’s MFA device to permanently delete an object version or suspend or reactivate versioning.

To use MFA with versioning, you enable MFA Delete. However, you can't enable MFA Delete using the Amazon Web Services Management Console. You must use the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) or the API. For more information, see Configuring MFA delete.

The following example enables versioning on an S3 bucket.

aws s3api put-bucket-versioning --bucket DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET1 --versioning-configuration Status=Enabled

The following example enables S3 Versioning and multi-factor authentication (MFA) delete on a bucket.

aws s3api put-bucket-versioning --bucket DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET1 --versioning-configuration Status=Enabled,MFADelete=Enabled --mfa "SERIAL 123456"
Note

Using MFA delete requires an approved physical or virtual authentication device. For more information about using MFA delete in Amazon S3, see Configuring MFA delete.

For more information about enabling versioning using the Amazon CLI, see put-bucket-versioning in the Amazon CLI Command Reference.

The following examples enable versioning on a bucket and then retrieve versioning status using the Amazon SDK for Java and the Amazon SDK for .NET. For information about using other Amazon SDKs, see the Amazon Developer Center.

.NET

For information about how to create and test a working sample, see Running the Amazon S3 .NET Code Examples.

using System; using Amazon.S3; using Amazon.S3.Model; namespace s3.amazon.com.docsamples { class BucketVersioningConfiguration { static string bucketName = "*** bucket name ***"; public static void Main(string[] args) { using (var client = new AmazonS3Client(Amazon.RegionEndpoint.USEast1)) { try { EnableVersioningOnBucket(client); string bucketVersioningStatus = RetrieveBucketVersioningConfiguration(client); } catch (AmazonS3Exception amazonS3Exception) { if (amazonS3Exception.ErrorCode != null && (amazonS3Exception.ErrorCode.Equals("InvalidAccessKeyId") || amazonS3Exception.ErrorCode.Equals("InvalidSecurity"))) { Console.WriteLine("Check the provided AWS Credentials."); Console.WriteLine( "To sign up for service, go to http://aws.amazon.com/s3"); } else { Console.WriteLine( "Error occurred. Message:'{0}' when listing objects", amazonS3Exception.Message); } } } Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue..."); Console.ReadKey(); } static void EnableVersioningOnBucket(IAmazonS3 client) { PutBucketVersioningRequest request = new PutBucketVersioningRequest { BucketName = bucketName, VersioningConfig = new S3BucketVersioningConfig { Status = VersionStatus.Enabled } }; PutBucketVersioningResponse response = client.PutBucketVersioning(request); } static string RetrieveBucketVersioningConfiguration(IAmazonS3 client) { GetBucketVersioningRequest request = new GetBucketVersioningRequest { BucketName = bucketName }; GetBucketVersioningResponse response = client.GetBucketVersioning(request); return response.VersioningConfig.Status; } } }
Java

For instructions on how to create and test a working sample, see Testing the Amazon S3 Java Code Examples.

import java.io.IOException; import com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfileCredentialsProvider; import com.amazonaws.regions.Region; import com.amazonaws.regions.Regions; import com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3Client; import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.AmazonS3Exception; import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.BucketVersioningConfiguration; import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.SetBucketVersioningConfigurationRequest; public class BucketVersioningConfigurationExample { public static String bucketName = "*** bucket name ***"; public static AmazonS3Client s3Client; public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { s3Client = new AmazonS3Client(new ProfileCredentialsProvider()); s3Client.setRegion(Region.getRegion(Regions.US_EAST_1)); try { // 1. Enable versioning on the bucket. BucketVersioningConfiguration configuration = new BucketVersioningConfiguration().withStatus("Enabled"); SetBucketVersioningConfigurationRequest setBucketVersioningConfigurationRequest = new SetBucketVersioningConfigurationRequest(bucketName,configuration); s3Client.setBucketVersioningConfiguration(setBucketVersioningConfigurationRequest); // 2. Get bucket versioning configuration information. BucketVersioningConfiguration conf = s3Client.getBucketVersioningConfiguration(bucketName); System.out.println("bucket versioning configuration status: " + conf.getStatus()); } catch (AmazonS3Exception amazonS3Exception) { System.out.format("An Amazon S3 error occurred. Exception: %s", amazonS3Exception.toString()); } catch (Exception ex) { System.out.format("Exception: %s", ex.toString()); } } }