Regional and Zonal endpoints

To access the Regional and Zonal endpoints for Amazon S3 Express One Zone from your virtual private cloud (VPC), you can use gateway VPC endpoints. After you create a gateway endpoint, you can add it as a target in your route table for traffic destined from your VPC to S3 Express One Zone. There is no additional charge for using gateway endpoints. For more information about how to configure gateway VPC endpoints, see Networking for S3 Express One Zone.

When you're working with S3 Express One Zone, bucket-level (control plane) API operations are available through a Regional endpoint and are referred to as Regional endpoint API operations. Examples of Regional endpoint API operations are CreateBucket and DeleteBucket.

After you create a directory bucket, you can use Zonal (object level, or data plane endpoint API operations) to upload and manage the objects in your directory bucket. Zonal endpoint API operations are available through a Zonal endpoint. Examples of Zonal API operations are PutObject and CopyObject.