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Amazon S3 Access Points API

Operations for creating and managing S3 access points

Amazon S3 Access Points API is one of 12 APIs that Amazon S3 publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Access Points. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, pricing, a getting-started guide, authentication docs, and 2 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 7 operations across 3 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2018-08-20.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://s3-control.{region}.amazonaws.com.

7 operations 3 paths 4 schemas 2 DELETE3 GET2 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
2018-08-20
Base URL
https://s3.amazonaws.com
Authentication
API Key
License
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Amazon S3 Access Points API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (sigv4). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • sigv4 — AWS Signature Version 4 authentication. The S3 Control API uses the service name s3 for signing.

Paths & Operations 7

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 7 operations — 2 DELETE, 3 GET, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Access Points 7

Operations for creating and managing S3 access points

GET
/v20180820/accesspoint/{name}
Amazon S3 Get Access Point
GetAccessPoint 2 params → 200404
PUT
/v20180820/accesspoint/{name}
Amazon S3 Create Access Point
CreateAccessPoint 2 params body → 200409
DELETE
/v20180820/accesspoint/{name}
Amazon S3 Delete Access Point
DeleteAccessPoint 2 params → 204404
GET
/v20180820/accesspoint
Amazon S3 List Access Points
ListAccessPoints 4 params → 200
GET
/v20180820/accesspoint/{name}/policy
Amazon S3 Get Access Point Policy
GetAccessPointPolicy 2 params → 200404
PUT
/v20180820/accesspoint/{name}/policy
Amazon S3 Put Access Point Policy
PutAccessPointPolicy 2 params body → 200
DELETE
/v20180820/accesspoint/{name}/policy
Amazon S3 Delete Access Point Policy
DeleteAccessPointPolicy 2 params → 204

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are GetAccessPointResult (10 properties), CreateAccessPointRequest (4 properties), PublicAccessBlockConfiguration (4 properties), ListAccessPointsResult (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

PublicAccessBlockConfiguration
object
The PublicAccessBlock configuration that you want to apply to this Amazon S3 account.
4 properties
ListAccessPointsResult
object
2 properties
GetAccessPointResult
object
10 properties
CreateAccessPointRequest
object
4 properties 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

amazon-s3-access-points-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Amazon S3 publishes across the network.

Amazon S3 Access Control API
Amazon S3 Access Grants API
Amazon S3 Batch Operations API
Amazon S3 Bucket Configuration API
Amazon S3 Buckets API
Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points API
Amazon S3 Multipart Upload API
Amazon S3 Objects API
Amazon S3 Public Access Block API
Amazon S3 Storage Lens API
Amazon S3 Tagging API
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