getBucketLocation

Using the GetBucketLocation operation is no longer a best practice. To return the Region that a bucket resides in, we recommend that you use the HeadBucket operation instead. For backward compatibility, Amazon S3 continues to support the GetBucketLocation operation.

Returns the Region the bucket resides in. You set the bucket's Region using the LocationConstraint request parameter in a CreateBucket request. For more information, see CreateBucket.

In a bucket's home Region, calls to the GetBucketLocation operation are governed by the bucket's policy. In other Regions, the bucket policy doesn't apply, which means that cross-account access won't be authorized. However, calls to the HeadBucket operation always return the bucket’s location through an HTTP response header, whether access to the bucket is authorized or not. Therefore, we recommend using the HeadBucket operation for bucket Region discovery and to avoid using the GetBucketLocation operation.

When you use this API operation with an access point, provide the alias of the access point in place of the bucket name.

When you use this API operation with an Object Lambda access point, provide the alias of the Object Lambda access point in place of the bucket name. If the Object Lambda access point alias in a request is not valid, the error code InvalidAccessPointAliasError is returned. For more information about InvalidAccessPointAliasError, see List of Error Codes.

This operation is not supported for directory buckets.

The following operations are related to GetBucketLocation:

• GetObject

• CreateBucket

You must URL encode any signed header values that contain spaces. For example, if your header value is my file.txt, containing two spaces after my, you must URL encode this value to my%20%20file.txt.

Samples

fun main() { 
   //sampleStart 
   // The following example returns bucket location.
val resp = s3Client.getBucketLocation {
    bucket = "examplebucket"
} 
   //sampleEnd
}