GetObject

Retrieves an object from Amazon S3.

In the GetObject request, specify the full key name for the object.

General purpose buckets - Both the virtual-hosted-style requests and the path-style requests are supported. For a virtual hosted-style request example, if you have the object photos/2006/February/sample.jpg, specify the object key name as /photos/2006/February/sample.jpg. For a path-style request example, if you have the object photos/2006/February/sample.jpg in the bucket named examplebucket, specify the object key name as /examplebucket/photos/2006/February/sample.jpg. For more information about request types, see HTTP Host Header Bucket Specification in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Directory buckets - Only virtual-hosted-style requests are supported. For a virtual hosted-style request example, if you have the object photos/2006/February/sample.jpg in the bucket named examplebucket--use1-az5--x-s3, specify the object key name as /photos/2006/February/sample.jpg. Also, when you make requests to this API operation, your requests are sent to the Zonal endpoint. These endpoints support virtual-hosted-style requests in the format https://bucket_name.s3express-az_id.region.amazonaws.com/key-name . Path-style requests are not supported. For more information, see Regional and Zonal endpoints in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Permissions

• General purpose bucket permissions - You must have the required permissions in a policy. To use GetObject, you must have the READ access to the object (or version). If you grant READ access to the anonymous user, the GetObject operation returns the object without using an authorization header. For more information, see Specifying permissions in a policy in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

  If you include a versionId in your request header, you must have the s3:GetObjectVersion permission to access a specific version of an object. The s3:GetObject permission is not required in this scenario.

  If you request the current version of an object without a specific versionId in the request header, only the s3:GetObject permission is required. The s3:GetObjectVersion permission is not required in this scenario.

  If the object that you request doesn’t exist, the error that Amazon S3 returns depends on whether you also have the s3:ListBucket permission.

  • If you have the s3:ListBucket permission on the bucket, Amazon S3 returns an HTTP status code 404 Not Found error.

  • If you don’t have the s3:ListBucket permission, Amazon S3 returns an HTTP status code 403 Access Denied error.

• Directory bucket permissions - To grant access to this API operation on a directory bucket, we recommend that you use the CreateSession API operation for session-based authorization. Specifically, you grant the s3express:CreateSession permission to the directory bucket in a bucket policy or an IAM identity-based policy. Then, you make the CreateSession API call on the bucket to obtain a session token. With the session token in your request header, you can make API requests to this operation. After the session token expires, you make another CreateSession API call to generate a new session token for use. AWS CLI or SDKs create session and refresh the session token automatically to avoid service interruptions when a session expires. For more information about authorization, see CreateSession.

  If the object is encrypted using SSE-KMS, you must also have the kms:GenerateDataKey and kms:Decrypt permissions in IAM identity-based policies and AWS KMS key policies for the AWS KMS key.

Storage classes

If the object you are retrieving is stored in the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage class, the S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class, the S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access tier, or the S3 Intelligent-Tiering Deep Archive Access tier, before you can retrieve the object you must first restore a copy using RestoreObject. Otherwise, this operation returns an InvalidObjectState error. For information about restoring archived objects, see Restoring Archived Objects in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Directory buckets - For directory buckets, only the S3 Express One Zone storage class is supported to store newly created objects. Unsupported storage class values won't write a destination object and will respond with the HTTP status code 400 Bad Request.

Encryption

Encryption request headers, like x-amz-server-side-encryption, should not be sent for the GetObject requests, if your object uses server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3), server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys (SSE-KMS), or dual-layer server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (DSSE-KMS). If you include the header in your GetObject requests for the object that uses these types of keys, you’ll get an HTTP 400 Bad Request error.

Directory buckets - For directory buckets, there are only two supported options for server-side encryption: SSE-S3 and SSE-KMS. SSE-C isn't supported. For more information, see Protecting data with server-side encryption in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Overriding response header values through the request

There are times when you want to override certain response header values of a GetObject response. For example, you might override the Content-Disposition response header value through your GetObject request.

You can override values for a set of response headers. These modified response header values are included only in a successful response, that is, when the HTTP status code 200 OK is returned. The headers you can override using the following query parameters in the request are a subset of the headers that Amazon S3 accepts when you create an object.

The response headers that you can override for the GetObject response are Cache-Control, Content-Disposition, Content-Encoding, Content-Language, Content-Type, and Expires.

To override values for a set of response headers in the GetObject response, you can use the following query parameters in the request.

• response-cache-control

• response-content-disposition

• response-content-encoding

• response-content-language

• response-content-type

• response-expires

Note

When you use these parameters, you must sign the request by using either an Authorization header or a presigned URL. These parameters cannot be used with an unsigned (anonymous) request.

HTTP Host header syntax

Directory buckets - The HTTP Host header syntax is Bucket_name.s3express-az_id.region.amazonaws.com.

The following operations are related to GetObject:

• ListBuckets

• GetObjectAcl

Request Syntax

GET /Key+?partNumber=PartNumber&response-cache-control=ResponseCacheControl&response-content-disposition=ResponseContentDisposition&response-content-encoding=ResponseContentEncoding&response-content-language=ResponseContentLanguage&response-content-type=ResponseContentType&response-expires=ResponseExpires&versionId=VersionId HTTP/1.1
Host: Bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
If-Match: IfMatch
If-Modified-Since: IfModifiedSince
If-None-Match: IfNoneMatch
If-Unmodified-Since: IfUnmodifiedSince
Range: Range
x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm: SSECustomerAlgorithm
x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key: SSECustomerKey
x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5: SSECustomerKeyMD5
x-amz-request-payer: RequestPayer
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner: ExpectedBucketOwner
x-amz-checksum-mode: ChecksumMode

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Bucket

The bucket name containing the object.

Directory buckets - When you use this operation with a directory bucket, you must use virtual-hosted-style requests in the format Bucket_name.s3express-az_id.region.amazonaws.com. Path-style requests are not supported. Directory bucket names must be unique in the chosen Availability Zone. Bucket names must follow the format bucket_base_name--az-id--x-s3 (for example, DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET--usw2-az1--x-s3). For information about bucket naming restrictions, see Directory bucket naming rules in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Access points - When you use this action with an access point, you must provide the alias of the access point in place of the bucket name or specify the access point ARN. When using the access point ARN, you must direct requests to the access point hostname. The access point hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.s3-accesspoint.Region.amazonaws.com. When using this action with an access point through the AWS SDKs, you provide the access point ARN in place of the bucket name. For more information about access point ARNs, see Using access points in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Object Lambda access points - When you use this action with an Object Lambda access point, you must direct requests to the Object Lambda access point hostname. The Object Lambda access point hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.s3-object-lambda.Region.amazonaws.com.

Note

Access points and Object Lambda access points are not supported by directory buckets.

S3 on Outposts - When you use this action with Amazon S3 on Outposts, you must direct requests to the S3 on Outposts hostname. The S3 on Outposts hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.outpostID.s3-outposts.Region.amazonaws.com. When you use this action with S3 on Outposts through the AWS SDKs, you provide the Outposts access point ARN in place of the bucket name. For more information about S3 on Outposts ARNs, see What is S3 on Outposts? in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Required: Yes

If-Match

Return the object only if its entity tag (ETag) is the same as the one specified in this header; otherwise, return a 412 Precondition Failed error.

If both of the If-Match and If-Unmodified-Since headers are present in the request as follows: If-Match condition evaluates to true, and; If-Unmodified-Since condition evaluates to false; then, S3 returns 200 OK and the data requested.

For more information about conditional requests, see RFC 7232.

If-Modified-Since

Return the object only if it has been modified since the specified time; otherwise, return a 304 Not Modified error.

If both of the If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since headers are present in the request as follows: If-None-Match condition evaluates to false, and; If-Modified-Since condition evaluates to true; then, S3 returns 304 Not Modified status code.

For more information about conditional requests, see RFC 7232.

If-None-Match

Return the object only if its entity tag (ETag) is different from the one specified in this header; otherwise, return a 304 Not Modified error.

If both of the If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since headers are present in the request as follows: If-None-Match condition evaluates to false, and; If-Modified-Since condition evaluates to true; then, S3 returns 304 Not Modified HTTP status code.

For more information about conditional requests, see RFC 7232.

If-Unmodified-Since

Return the object only if it has not been modified since the specified time; otherwise, return a 412 Precondition Failed error.

If both of the If-Match and If-Unmodified-Since headers are present in the request as follows: If-Match condition evaluates to true, and; If-Unmodified-Since condition evaluates to false; then, S3 returns 200 OK and the data requested.

For more information about conditional requests, see RFC 7232.

Key

Key of the object to get.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.

Required: Yes

partNumber

Part number of the object being read. This is a positive integer between 1 and 10,000. Effectively performs a 'ranged' GET request for the part specified. Useful for downloading just a part of an object.

Range

Downloads the specified byte range of an object. For more information about the HTTP Range header, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#name-range.

Note

Amazon S3 doesn't support retrieving multiple ranges of data per GET request.

response-cache-control

Sets the Cache-Control header of the response.

response-content-disposition

Sets the Content-Disposition header of the response.

response-content-encoding

Sets the Content-Encoding header of the response.

response-content-language

Sets the Content-Language header of the response.

response-content-type

Sets the Content-Type header of the response.

response-expires

Sets the Expires header of the response.

versionId

Version ID used to reference a specific version of the object.

By default, the GetObject operation returns the current version of an object. To return a different version, use the versionId subresource.

Note

• If you include a versionId in your request header, you must have the s3:GetObjectVersion permission to access a specific version of an object. The s3:GetObject permission is not required in this scenario.

• If you request the current version of an object without a specific versionId in the request header, only the s3:GetObject permission is required. The s3:GetObjectVersion permission is not required in this scenario.

• Directory buckets - S3 Versioning isn't enabled and supported for directory buckets. For this API operation, only the null value of the version ID is supported by directory buckets. You can only specify null to the versionId query parameter in the request.

For more information about versioning, see PutBucketVersioning.

x-amz-checksum-mode

To retrieve the checksum, this mode must be enabled.

General purpose buckets - In addition, if you enable checksum mode and the object is uploaded with a checksum and encrypted with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key, you must have permission to use the kms:Decrypt action to retrieve the checksum.

Valid Values: ENABLED

x-amz-expected-bucket-owner

The account ID of the expected bucket owner. If the account ID that you provide does not match the actual owner of the bucket, the request fails with the HTTP status code 403 Forbidden (access denied).

x-amz-request-payer

Confirms that the requester knows that they will be charged for the request. Bucket owners need not specify this parameter in their requests. If either the source or destination S3 bucket has Requester Pays enabled, the requester will pay for corresponding charges to copy the object. For information about downloading objects from Requester Pays buckets, see Downloading Objects in Requester Pays Buckets in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

Valid Values: requester

x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm

Specifies the algorithm to use when decrypting the object (for example, AES256).

If you encrypt an object by using server-side encryption with customer-provided encryption keys (SSE-C) when you store the object in Amazon S3, then when you GET the object, you must use the following headers:

• x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm

• x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key

• x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5

For more information about SSE-C, see Server-Side Encryption (Using Customer-Provided Encryption Keys) in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key

Specifies the customer-provided encryption key that you originally provided for Amazon S3 to encrypt the data before storing it. This value is used to decrypt the object when recovering it and must match the one used when storing the data. The key must be appropriate for use with the algorithm specified in the x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm header.

If you encrypt an object by using server-side encryption with customer-provided encryption keys (SSE-C) when you store the object in Amazon S3, then when you GET the object, you must use the following headers:

• x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm

• x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key

• x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5

For more information about SSE-C, see Server-Side Encryption (Using Customer-Provided Encryption Keys) in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5

Specifies the 128-bit MD5 digest of the customer-provided encryption key according to RFC 1321. Amazon S3 uses this header for a message integrity check to ensure that the encryption key was transmitted without error.

If you encrypt an object by using server-side encryption with customer-provided encryption keys (SSE-C) when you store the object in Amazon S3, then when you GET the object, you must use the following headers:

• x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm

• x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key

• x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5

For more information about SSE-C, see Server-Side Encryption (Using Customer-Provided Encryption Keys) in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200
x-amz-delete-marker: DeleteMarker
accept-ranges: AcceptRanges
x-amz-expiration: Expiration
x-amz-restore: Restore
Last-Modified: LastModified
Content-Length: ContentLength
ETag: ETag
x-amz-checksum-crc32: ChecksumCRC32
x-amz-checksum-crc32c: ChecksumCRC32C
x-amz-checksum-sha1: ChecksumSHA1
x-amz-checksum-sha256: ChecksumSHA256
x-amz-missing-meta: MissingMeta
x-amz-version-id: VersionId
Cache-Control: CacheControl
Content-Disposition: ContentDisposition
Content-Encoding: ContentEncoding
Content-Language: ContentLanguage
Content-Range: ContentRange
Content-Type: ContentType
Expires: Expires
x-amz-website-redirect-location: WebsiteRedirectLocation
x-amz-server-side-encryption: ServerSideEncryption
x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm: SSECustomerAlgorithm
x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5: SSECustomerKeyMD5
x-amz-server-side-encryption-aws-kms-key-id: SSEKMSKeyId
x-amz-server-side-encryption-bucket-key-enabled: BucketKeyEnabled
x-amz-storage-class: StorageClass
x-amz-request-charged: RequestCharged
x-amz-replication-status: ReplicationStatus
x-amz-mp-parts-count: PartsCount
x-amz-tagging-count: TagCount
x-amz-object-lock-mode: ObjectLockMode
x-amz-object-lock-retain-until-date: ObjectLockRetainUntilDate
x-amz-object-lock-legal-hold: ObjectLockLegalHoldStatus

Body

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The response returns the following HTTP headers.

accept-ranges

Indicates that a range of bytes was specified in the request.

Cache-Control

Specifies caching behavior along the request/reply chain.

Content-Disposition

Specifies presentational information for the object.

Content-Encoding

Indicates what content encodings have been applied to the object and thus what decoding mechanisms must be applied to obtain the media-type referenced by the Content-Type header field.

Content-Language

The language the content is in.

Content-Length

Size of the body in bytes.

Content-Range

The portion of the object returned in the response.

Content-Type

A standard MIME type describing the format of the object data.

ETag

An entity tag (ETag) is an opaque identifier assigned by a web server to a specific version of a resource found at a URL.

Expires

The date and time at which the object is no longer cacheable.

Last-Modified

Date and time when the object was last modified.

General purpose buckets - When you specify a versionId of the object in your request, if the specified version in the request is a delete marker, the response returns a 405 Method Not Allowed error and the Last-Modified: timestamp response header.

x-amz-checksum-crc32

The base64-encoded, 32-bit CRC-32 checksum of the object. This will only be present if it was uploaded with the object. For more information, see Checking object integrity in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

x-amz-checksum-crc32c

The base64-encoded, 32-bit CRC-32C checksum of the object. This will only be present if it was uploaded with the object. For more information, see Checking object integrity in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

x-amz-checksum-sha1

The base64-encoded, 160-bit SHA-1 digest of the object. This will only be present if it was uploaded with the object. For more information, see Checking object integrity in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

x-amz-checksum-sha256

The base64-encoded, 256-bit SHA-256 digest of the object. This will only be present if it was uploaded with the object. For more information, see Checking object integrity in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

x-amz-delete-marker

Indicates whether the object retrieved was (true) or was not (false) a Delete Marker. If false, this response header does not appear in the response.

Note

• If the current version of the object is a delete marker, Amazon S3 behaves as if the object was deleted and includes x-amz-delete-marker: true in the response.

• If the specified version in the request is a delete marker, the response returns a 405 Method Not Allowed error and the Last-Modified: timestamp response header.

x-amz-expiration

If the object expiration is configured (see PutBucketLifecycleConfiguration), the response includes this header. It includes the expiry-date and rule-id key-value pairs providing object expiration information. The value of the rule-id is URL-encoded.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

x-amz-missing-meta

This is set to the number of metadata entries not returned in the headers that are prefixed with x-amz-meta-. This can happen if you create metadata using an API like SOAP that supports more flexible metadata than the REST API. For example, using SOAP, you can create metadata whose values are not legal HTTP headers.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

x-amz-mp-parts-count

The count of parts this object has. This value is only returned if you specify partNumber in your request and the object was uploaded as a multipart upload.

x-amz-object-lock-legal-hold

Indicates whether this object has an active legal hold. This field is only returned if you have permission to view an object's legal hold status.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

Valid Values: ON | OFF

x-amz-object-lock-mode

The Object Lock mode that's currently in place for this object.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

Valid Values: GOVERNANCE | COMPLIANCE

x-amz-object-lock-retain-until-date

The date and time when this object's Object Lock will expire.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

x-amz-replication-status

Amazon S3 can return this if your request involves a bucket that is either a source or destination in a replication rule.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

Valid Values: COMPLETE | PENDING | FAILED | REPLICA | COMPLETED

x-amz-request-charged

If present, indicates that the requester was successfully charged for the request.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

Valid Values: requester

x-amz-restore

Provides information about object restoration action and expiration time of the restored object copy.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets. Only the S3 Express One Zone storage class is supported by directory buckets to store objects.

x-amz-server-side-encryption

The server-side encryption algorithm used when you store this object in Amazon S3.

Valid Values: AES256 | aws:kms | aws:kms:dsse

x-amz-server-side-encryption-aws-kms-key-id

If present, indicates the ID of the KMS key that was used for object encryption.

x-amz-server-side-encryption-bucket-key-enabled

Indicates whether the object uses an S3 Bucket Key for server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys (SSE-KMS).

x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm

If server-side encryption with a customer-provided encryption key was requested, the response will include this header to confirm the encryption algorithm that's used.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5

If server-side encryption with a customer-provided encryption key was requested, the response will include this header to provide the round-trip message integrity verification of the customer-provided encryption key.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

x-amz-storage-class

Provides storage class information of the object. Amazon S3 returns this header for all objects except for S3 Standard storage class objects.

Note

Directory buckets - Only the S3 Express One Zone storage class is supported by directory buckets to store objects.

Valid Values: STANDARD | REDUCED_REDUNDANCY | STANDARD_IA | ONEZONE_IA | INTELLIGENT_TIERING | GLACIER | DEEP_ARCHIVE | OUTPOSTS | GLACIER_IR | SNOW | EXPRESS_ONEZONE

x-amz-tagging-count

The number of tags, if any, on the object, when you have the relevant permission to read object tags.

You can use GetObjectTagging to retrieve the tag set associated with an object.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

x-amz-version-id

Version ID of the object.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

x-amz-website-redirect-location

If the bucket is configured as a website, redirects requests for this object to another object in the same bucket or to an external URL. Amazon S3 stores the value of this header in the object metadata.

Note

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

The following data is returned in binary format by the service.

Body

Errors

InvalidObjectState

Object is archived and inaccessible until restored.

If the object you are retrieving is stored in the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage class, the S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class, the S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access tier, or the S3 Intelligent-Tiering Deep Archive Access tier, before you can retrieve the object you must first restore a copy using RestoreObject. Otherwise, this operation returns an InvalidObjectState error. For information about restoring archived objects, see Restoring Archived Objects in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 403

NoSuchKey

The specified key does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

Examples

Sample Request for general purpose buckets

The following request returns the object my-image.jpg.

            GET /my-image.jpg HTTP/1.1
            Host: bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
            Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 22:32:00 GMT
            Authorization: authorization string
         

Sample Response for general purpose buckets

This example illustrates one usage of GetObject.

            HTTP/1.1 200 OK
            x-amz-id-2: eftixk72aD6Ap51TnqcoF8eFidJG9Z/2mkiDFu8yU9AS1ed4OpIszj7UDNEHGran
            x-amz-request-id: 318BC8BC148832E5
            Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 22:32:00 GMT
            Last-Modified: Wed, 12 Oct 2009 17:50:00 GMT
            ETag: "fba9dede5f27731c9771645a39863328"
            Content-Length: 434234

           [434234 bytes of object data]
         

Sample Response for general purpose buckets: Object with associated tags

If the object had tags associated with it, Amazon S3 returns the x-amz-tagging-count header with tag count.

            HTTP/1.1 200 OK
            x-amz-id-2: eftixk72aD6Ap51TnqcoF8eFidJG9Z/2mkiDFu8yU9AS1ed4OpIszj7UDNEHGran
            x-amz-request-id: 318BC8BC148832E5
            Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 22:32:00 GMT
            Last-Modified: Wed, 12 Oct 2009 17:50:00 GMT
            ETag: "fba9dede5f27731c9771645a39863328"
            Content-Length: 434234
            x-amz-tagging-count: 2

           [434234 bytes of object data]
         

Sample Response for general purpose buckets: Object with an expiration

If the object had expiration set using lifecycle configuration, you get the following response with the x-amz-expiration header.

            HTTP/1.1 200 OK
            x-amz-id-2: eftixk72aD6Ap51TnqcoF8eFidJG9Z/2mkiDFu8yU9AS1ed4OpIszj7UDNEHGran
            x-amz-request-id: 318BC8BC148832E5
            Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
            Last-Modified: Wed, 12 Oct 2009 17:50:00 GMT
            x-amz-expiration: expiry-date="Fri, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT", rule-id="picture-deletion-rule"
            ETag: "fba9dede5f27731c9771645a39863328"
            Content-Length: 434234
            Content-Type: text/plain

            [434234 bytes of object data]
         

Sample Response for general purpose buckets: If an object is archived in the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes

If the object you are retrieving is stored in the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes, you must first restore a copy using RestoreObject. Otherwise, this action returns an InvalidObjectState error.

            HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
            x-amz-request-id: CD4BD8A1310A11B3
            x-amz-id-2: m9RDbQU0+RRBTjOUN1ChQ1eqMUnr9dv8b+KP6I2gHfRJZSTSrMCoRP8RtPRzX9mb
            Content-Type: application/xml
            Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:53:21 GMT
            Server: Amazon S3
            Content-Length: 231

            <Error>
              <Code>InvalidObjectState</Code>
              <Message>The action is not valid for the object's storage class</Message>
              <RequestId>9FEFFF118E15B86F</RequestId>
              <HostId>WVQ5kzhiT+oiUfDCOiOYv8W4Tk9eNcxWi/MK+hTS/av34Xy4rBU3zsavf0aaaaa</HostId>
            </Error>
         

Sample Response for general purpose buckets: If an object is archived with the S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive or S3 Intelligent-Tiering Deep Archive tiers

If the object you are retrieving is stored in the S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive or S3 Intelligent-Tiering Deep Archive tiers, you must first restore a copy using RestoreObject. Otherwise, this action returns an InvalidObjectState error. When restoring from Archive Access or Deep Archive Access tiers, the response will include StorageClass and AccessTier elements. Access tier valid values are ARCHIVE_ACCESS and DEEP_ARCHIVE_ACCESS. There is no syntax change if there is an ongoing restore.

            HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
            x-amz-request-id: CB6AW8C4332B23B7
            x-amz-id-2: n3RRfT90+PJDUhut3nhGW2ehfhfNU5f55c+a2ceCC36ab7c7fe3a71Q273b9Q45b1R5
            Content-Type: application/xml
            Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:53:21 GMT
            Server: Amazon S3
            Content-Length: 231

            <Error>
              <Code>InvalidObjectState</Code>
              <Message>The action is not valid for the object's access tier</Message>
              <StorageClass>INTELLIGENT_TIERING</StorageClass>
              <AccessTier>ARCHIVE_ACCESS</AccessTier>
              <RequestId>9FEFFF118E15B86F</RequestId>
              <HostId>WVQ5kzhiT+oiUfDCOiOYv8W4Tk9eNcxWi/MK+hTS/av34Xy4rBU3zsavf0aaaaa</HostId>
            </Error>
            

Sample Response for general purpose buckets: If the Latest Object Is a Delete Marker

Notice that the delete marker returns a 404 Not Found error.

            HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
            x-amz-request-id: 318BC8BC148832E5
            x-amz-id-2: eftixk72aD6Ap51Tnqzj7UDNEHGran
            x-amz-version-id: 3GL4kqtJlcpXroDTDm3vjVBH40Nr8X8g
            x-amz-delete-marker:  true
            Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
            Content-Type: text/plain
            Connection: close
            Server: AmazonS3
         

Sample Request for general purpose buckets: Getting a specified version of an object

The following request returns the specified version of an object.

            GET /myObject?versionId=3/L4kqtJlcpXroDTDmpUMLUo HTTP/1.1
            Host: bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
            Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
            Authorization: authorization string
         

Sample Response for general purpose buckets: GET a versioned object

This example illustrates one usage of GetObject.

            HTTP/1.1 200 OK
            x-amz-id-2: eftixk72aD6Ap54OpIszj7UDNEHGran
            x-amz-request-id: 318BC8BC148832E5
            Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
            Last-Modified: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT
            x-amz-version-id: 3/L4kqtJlcpXroDTDmJ+rmSpXd3QBpUMLUo
            ETag: "fba9dede5f27731c9771645a39863328"
            Content-Length: 434234
            Content-Type: text/plain
            Connection: close
            Server: AmazonS3
            [434234 bytes of object data]
         

Sample Request for general purpose buckets: Parameters altering response header values

The following request specifies all the query string parameters in a GET request overriding the response header values.

            GET /Junk3.txt?response-cache-control=No-cache&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dtesting.txt&response-content-encoding=x-gzip&response-content-language=mi%2C%20en&response-expires=Thu%2C%2001%20Dec%201994%2016:00:00%20GMT HTTP/1.1
            x-amz-date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:53:44 GMT
            Accept: */*
            Authorization: AWS AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE:aaStE6nKnw8ihhiIdReoXYlMamW=
         

Sample Response for general purpose buckets: With overridden response header values

The following request specifies all the query string parameters in a GET request overriding the response header values.

            HTTP/1.1 200 OK
            x-amz-id-2: SIidWAK3hK+Il3/Qqiu1ZKEuegzLAAspwsgwnwygb9GgFseeFHL5CII8NXSrfWW2
            x-amz-request-id: 881B1CBD9DF17WA1
            Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:54:01 GMT
            x-amz-meta-param1: value 1
            x-amz-meta-param2: value 2
            Cache-Control: No-cache
            Content-Language: mi, en
            Expires: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT
            Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=testing.txt
            Content-Encoding: x-gzip
            Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:10:41 GMT
            ETag: "0332bee1a7bf845f176c5c0d1ae7cf07"
            Accept-Ranges: bytes
            Content-Type: text/plain
            Content-Length: 22
            Server: AmazonS3

            [object data not shown]
         

Sample Request for general purpose buckets: Range header

The following request specifies the HTTP Range header to retrieve the first 10 bytes of an object. For more information about the HTTP Range header, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#name-range.

Note

Amazon S3 doesn't support retrieving multiple ranges of data per GET request.

            GET /example-object HTTP/1.1
            Host: example-bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
            x-amz-date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:32:02 GMT
            Range: bytes=0-9
            Authorization: AWS AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE:Yxg83MZaEgh3OZ3l0rLo5RTX11o=
            Sample Response with Specified Range of the Object Bytes
         

Sample Response for general purpose buckets

In the following sample response, note that the header values are set to the values specified in the true request.

            HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
            x-amz-id-2: MzRISOwyjmnupCzjI1WC06l5TTAzm7/JypPGXLh0OVFGcJaaO3KW/hRAqKOpIEEp
            x-amz-request-id: 47622117804B3E11
            Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:32:09 GMT
            x-amz-meta-title: the title
            Last-Modified: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:10:32 GMT
            ETag: "b2419b1e3fd45d596ee22bdf62aaaa2f"
            Accept-Ranges: bytes
            Content-Range: bytes 0-9/443
            Content-Type: text/plain
            Content-Length: 10
            Server: AmazonS3

           [10 bytes of object data]
         

Sample Request for general purpose buckets: Get an object stored using server-side encryption with customer-provided encryption keys

If an object is stored in Amazon S3 using server-side encryption with customer-provided encryption keys, Amazon S3 needs encryption information so that it can decrypt the object before sending it to you in response to a GET request. You provide the encryption information in your GET request using the relevant headers, as shown in the following example request.

            GET /example-object HTTP/1.1
            Host: example-bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com	

            Accept: */*
            Authorization:authorization string   
            Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 19:24:44 +0000   
            x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key:g0lCfA3Dv40jZz5SQJ1ZukLRFqtI5WorC/8SEKEXAMPLE   
            x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5:ZjQrne1X/iTcskbY2m3example  
            x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm:AES256
         

Sample Response for general purpose buckets

The following sample response shows some of the response headers Amazon S3 returns. Note that it includes the encryption information in the response.

            HTTP/1.1 200 OK
            x-amz-id-2: ka5jRm8X3N12ZiY29Z989zg2tNSJPMcK+to7jNjxImXBbyChqc6tLAv+sau7Vjzh
            x-amz-request-id: 195157E3E073D3F9   
            Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 19:24:45 GMT   
            Last-Modified: Wed, 28 May 2014 19:21:01 GMT   
            ETag: "c12022c9a3c6d3a28d29d90933a2b096"   
            x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm: AES256   
            x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5: ZjQrne1X/iTcskbY2m3example    
         

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go v2

• AWS SDK for Java V2

• AWS SDK for JavaScript V3

• AWS SDK for PHP V3

• AWS SDK for Python

• AWS SDK for Ruby V3