Getting Started
S3 API is an API based on Amazon S3 API designed to work with object storage resources. Using the S3 API you can:
- view information about the number and volume of containers and objects within an account;
- create and delete containers;
- upload, view, copy, move, download, and delete objects in containers;
- manage segmented loading of objects;
- manage CORS, etc.
API Access
The S3 API can only be accessed with authorized access.
To access the container via the S3 API, the user must have a role with access to the Object storage. See the Manage access to the Object storage instructions for details.
The URL when using Path-Style addressing (default) can be viewed in the URL list.
If the Virtual Hosted addressing is enabled, you can address the container at <container_name>.<url>.
Authentication
Authentication in the S3 API is accomplished by signing requests. We support AWS Signature Version 4 and AWS Signature Version 2.
Signature generation will require access keys, which can be obtained when issuing an S3 key to the user:
- Access Key ID — the value of the Access key field from the S3 key;
- Secret Access Key — the value of the Secret key field from the S3 key.
You can sign the request using one of the following methods:
- using the Authorization HTTP header, see Authenticating Requests: Using the Authorization Header (AWS Signature Version 4) Amazon documentation for more;
- using query parameters or a Presigned URL. With this method, you can specify all query parameters in the URL, see Authenticating Requests: Using Query Parameters (AWS Signature Version 4) in the Amazon documentation.
The lifetime of a request signature is 15 minutes.