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Using Amazon S3 Dual-Stack Endpoints

Amazon S3 dual-stack endpoints support requests to S3 buckets over IPv6 and IPv4. This section describes how to use dual-stack endpoints.

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Amazon S3 Dual-Stack Endpoints

When you make a request to a dual-stack endpoint, the bucket URL resolves to an IPv6 or an IPv4 address. For more information about accessing a bucket over IPv6, see Making Requests to Amazon S3 over IPv6.

When using the REST API, you directly access an Amazon S3 endpoint by using the endpoint name (URI). You can access an S3 bucket through a dual-stack endpoint by using a virtual hosted-style or a path-style endpoint name. Amazon S3 supports only regional dual-stack endpoint names, which means that you must specify the region as part of the name.

Use the following naming conventions for the dual-stack virtual hosted-style and path-style endpoint names:

  • Virtual hosted-style dual-stack endpoint:

    bucketname.s3.dualstack.aws-region.amazonaws.com

     

  • Path-style dual-stack endpoint:

    s3.dualstack.aws-region.amazonaws.com/bucketname

For more information about endpoint name style, see Accessing a Bucket. For a list of Amazon S3 endpoints, see Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference.

Important

You can use transfer acceleration with dual-stack endpoints. For more information, see Getting Started with Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration.

When using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and AWS SDKs, you can use a parameter or flag to change to a dual-stack endpoint. You can also specify the dual-stack endpoint directly as an override of the Amazon S3 endpoint in the config file. The following sections describe how to use dual-stack endpoints from the AWS CLI and the AWS SDKs.

Using Dual-Stack Endpoints from the AWS CLI

This section provides examples of AWS CLI commands used to make requests to a dual-stack endpoint. For instructions on setting up the AWS CLI, see Set Up the AWS CLI.

You set the configuration value use_dualstack_endpoint to true in a profile in your AWS Config file to direct all Amazon S3 requests made by the s3 and s3api AWS CLI commands to the dual-stack endpoint for the specified region. You specify the region in the config file or in a command using the --region option.

When using dual-stack endpoints with the AWS CLI, both path and virtual addressing styles are supported. The addressing style, set in the config file, controls if the bucket name is in the hostname or part of the URL. By default, the CLI will attempt to use virtual style where possible, but will fall back to path style if necessary. For more information, see AWS CLI Amazon S3 Configuration.

You can also make configuration changes by using a command, as shown in the following example, which sets use_dualstack_endpoint to true and addressing_style to virtual in the default profile. 

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$ aws configure set default.s3.use_dualstack_endpoint true
$ aws configure set default.s3.addressing_style virtual

If you want to use a dual-stack endpoint for specified AWS CLI commands only (not all commands), you can use either of the following methods:

  • You can use the dual-stack endpoint per command by setting the --endpoint-url parameter to https://s3.dualstack.aws-region.amazonaws.com or http://s3.dualstack.aws-region.amazonaws.com for any s3 or s3api command. 

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    $ aws s3api list-objects --bucket bucketname --endpoint-url https://s3.dualstack.aws-region.amazonaws.com

  • You can set up separate profiles in your AWS Config file. For example, create one profile that sets use_dualstack_endpoint to true and a profile that does not set use_dualstack_endpoint. When you run a command, specify which profile you want to use, depending upon whether or not you want to use the dual-stack endpoint.

Note

When using the AWS CLI you currently cannot use transfer acceleration with dual-stack endpoints. However, support for the AWS CLI is coming soon. For more information, see Using Transfer Acceleration from the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) .

Using Dual-Stack Endpoints from the AWS SDKs

This section provides examples of how to access a dual-stack endpoint by using the AWS SDKs.

AWS Java SDK Dual-Stack Endpoint Example

You use the setS3ClientOptions method in the AWS Java SDK to enable the use of a dual-stack endpoint when creating an instance of AmazonS3Client, as shown in the following example. 

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AmazonS3 s3Client = new AmazonS3Client(new ProfileCredentialsProvider());
s3Client.setRegion(Region.getRegion(Regions.US_WEST_2));
s3Client.setS3ClientOptions(S3ClientOptions.builder().enableDualstack().build());

If you are using the AWS Java SDK on Microsoft Windows, you might have to set the following Java virtual machine (JVM) property. 

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java.net.preferIPv6Addresses=true

For information about how to create and test a working Java sample, see Testing the Java Code Examples.

AWS .NET SDK Dual-Stack Endpoint Example

When using the AWS SDK for .NET you use the AmazonS3Config class to enable the use of a dual-stack endpoint as shown in the following example. 

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var config = new AmazonS3Config
{
    UseDualstackEndpoint = true,
    RegionEndpoint = RegionEndpoint.USWest2
};

using (var s3Client = new AmazonS3Client(config))
{
    var request = new ListObjectsRequest
    {
        BucketName = “myBucket”
    };

    var response = s3Client.ListObjects(request);
}

For a full .NET sample for listing objects, see Listing Keys Using the AWS SDK for .NET.

Note

You currently cannot use transfer acceleration with dual-stack endpoints. The .NET SDK will throw an exception if you configure both UseAccelerateEndpoint and UseDualstackEndpoint on the config object. For more information, see Using Transfer Acceleration from the AWS SDK for .NET.

For information about how to create and test a working .NET sample, see Running the Amazon S3 .NET Code Examples.

Using Dual-Stack Endpoints from the REST API

For information about making requests to dual-stack endpoints by using the REST API, see Making Requests to Dual-Stack Endpoints by Using the REST API.