S3

General information about AWS S3

URL Format

S3 utilizes a global namespace which means each bucket name must be unique. Additionally, buckets can be accessed via a URL which means the DNS entry must be unique.

  • https://[bucketName].s3.amazonaws.com

  • https://s3-[region].amazonaws.com/[OrgName]

Identify Region

S3 buckets reside and store data in a particular region. We can discover the region in a few ways.

  • nslookup https://tyler123kjdf.s3.amazonaws.com

  • curl -I [bucketName].s3.amazonaws.com

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