Request Syntax URI Request Parameters Request Body Response Syntax Response Elements Examples See Also

CreateAccessPoint

Note

This operation is not supported by directory buckets.

Creates an access point and associates it with the specified bucket. For more information, see Managing Data Access with Amazon S3 Access Points in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Note

S3 on Outposts only supports VPC-style access points.

For more information, see Accessing Amazon S3 on Outposts using virtual private cloud (VPC) only access points in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

All Amazon S3 on Outposts REST API requests for this action require an additional parameter of x-amz-outpost-id to be passed with the request. In addition, you must use an S3 on Outposts endpoint hostname prefix instead of s3-control. For an example of the request syntax for Amazon S3 on Outposts that uses the S3 on Outposts endpoint hostname prefix and the x-amz-outpost-id derived by using the access point ARN, see the Examples section.

The following actions are related to CreateAccessPoint:

Request Syntax


PUT /v20180820/accesspoint/name HTTP/1.1
Host: s3-control.amazonaws.com
x-amz-account-id: AccountId
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CreateAccessPointRequest xmlns="http://awss3control.amazonaws.com/doc/2018-08-20/">
   <Bucket>string</Bucket>
   <VpcConfiguration>
      <VpcId>string</VpcId>
   </VpcConfiguration>
   <PublicAccessBlockConfiguration>
      <BlockPublicAcls>boolean</BlockPublicAcls>
      <BlockPublicPolicy>boolean</BlockPublicPolicy>
      <IgnorePublicAcls>boolean</IgnorePublicAcls>
      <RestrictPublicBuckets>boolean</RestrictPublicBuckets>
   </PublicAccessBlockConfiguration>
   <BucketAccountId>string</BucketAccountId>
</CreateAccessPointRequest>

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

name

The name you want to assign to this access point.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 3. Maximum length of 255.

Required: Yes

x-amz-account-id

The AWS account ID for the account that owns the specified access point.

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: ^\d{12}$

Required: Yes

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in XML format.

CreateAccessPointRequest

Root level tag for the CreateAccessPointRequest parameters.

Required: Yes

Bucket

The name of the bucket that you want to associate this access point with.

For using this parameter with Amazon S3 on Outposts with the REST API, you must specify the name and the x-amz-outpost-id as well.

For using this parameter with S3 on Outposts with the AWS SDK and CLI, you must specify the ARN of the bucket accessed in the format arn:aws:s3-outposts:<Region>:<account-id>:outpost/<outpost-id>/bucket/<my-bucket-name>. For example, to access the bucket reports through Outpost my-outpost owned by account 123456789012 in Region us-west-2, use the URL encoding of arn:aws:s3-outposts:us-west-2:123456789012:outpost/my-outpost/bucket/reports. The value must be URL encoded.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 3. Maximum length of 255.

Required: Yes

BucketAccountId

The AWS account ID associated with the S3 bucket associated with this access point.

For same account access point when your bucket and access point belong to the same account owner, the BucketAccountId is not required. For cross-account access point when your bucket and access point are not in the same account, the BucketAccountId is required.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: ^\d{12}$

Required: No

PublicAccessBlockConfiguration

The PublicAccessBlock configuration that you want to apply to the access point.

Type: PublicAccessBlockConfiguration data type

Required: No

VpcConfiguration

If you include this field, Amazon S3 restricts access to this access point to requests from the specified virtual private cloud (VPC).

Note

This is required for creating an access point for Amazon S3 on Outposts buckets.

Type: VpcConfiguration data type

Required: No

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CreateAccessPointResult>
   <AccessPointArn>string</AccessPointArn>
   <Alias>string</Alias>
</CreateAccessPointResult>

Response Elements

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

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

CreateAccessPointResult

Root level tag for the CreateAccessPointResult parameters.

Required: Yes

AccessPointArn

The ARN of the access point.

Note

This is only supported by Amazon S3 on Outposts.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 4. Maximum length of 128.

Alias

The name or alias of the access point.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 63.

Pattern: ^[0-9a-z\\-]{63}

Examples

Sample request for creating an access point for an Amazon S3 on Outposts bucket

This request creates an access point for S3 on Outposts bucket.



            PUT /v20180820/accesspoint/example-access-point HTTP/1.1
            Host:s3-outposts.<Region>.amazonaws.com
            x-amz-account-id: example-account-id
            x-amz-outpost-id: op-01ac5d28a6a232904
            <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
               <CreateAccessPointRequest xmlns="http://awss3control.amazonaws.com/doc/2018-08-20/">
                  <Bucket>example-outpost-bucket </Bucket>
               </CreateAccessPointRequest>