Amazon S3 access points - Amazon SDKs and Tools
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Amazon S3 access points

The Amazon S3 service provides access points as an alternative way to interact with Amazon S3 buckets. Access points have unique policies and configurations that can be applied to them instead of directly to the bucket. With Amazon SDKs, you can use access point Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the bucket field for API operations instead of specifying the bucket name explicitly. They are used for specific operations such as using an access point ARN with GetObject to fetch an object from a bucket, or using an access point ARN with PutObject to add an object to a bucket.

To learn more about Amazon S3 access points and ARNs, see Using access points in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Configure this functionality by using the following:

s3_use_arn_region - shared Amazon config file setting
AWS_S3_USE_ARN_REGION - environment variable
aws.s3UseArnRegion - JVM system property: Java/Kotlin only
To configure value directly in code, consult your specific SDK directly.

This setting controls whether the SDK uses the access point ARN Amazon Web Services Region to construct the Regional endpoint for the request. The SDK validates that the ARN Amazon Web Services Region is served by the same Amazon partition as the client's configured Amazon Web Services Region to prevent cross-partition calls that most likely will fail. If multiply defined, the code-configured setting takes precedence, followed by the environment variable setting.

Default value: false

Valid values:

  • true – The SDK uses the ARN's Amazon Web Services Region when constructing the endpoint instead of the client's configured Amazon Web Services Region. Exception: If the client's configured Amazon Web Services Region is a FIPS Amazon Web Services Region, then it must match the ARN's Amazon Web Services Region. Otherwise, an error will result.

  • false – The SDK uses the client's configured Amazon Web Services Region when constructing the endpoint.

Compatibility with Amazon SDKs

The following SDKs support the features and settings described in this topic. Any partial exceptions are noted. Any JVM system property settings are supported by the Amazon SDK for Java and the Amazon SDK for Kotlin only.

SDK Supported Notes or more information
Amazon CLI v2 Yes
SDK for C++ Yes
SDK for Go V2 (1.x) Yes
SDK for Go 1.x (V1) Yes To use shared config file settings, you must turn on loading from the config file; see Sessions.
SDK for Java 2.x Yes
SDK for Java 1.x Yes JVM system property not supported.
SDK for JavaScript 3.x Yes
SDK for JavaScript 2.x Yes
SDK for Kotlin Yes
SDK for .NET 3.x Yes Doesn’t follow standard precedence; shared config file value takes precedence over environment variable.
SDK for PHP 3.x Yes
SDK for Python (Boto3) Yes
SDK for Ruby 3.x Yes
SDK for Rust No
Tools for PowerShell Yes Doesn’t follow standard precedence; shared config file value takes precedence over environment variable.