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

HeadBucket

You can use this operation to determine if a bucket exists and if you have permission to access it. The action returns a 200 OK if the bucket exists and you have permission to access it.

Note

If the bucket does not exist or you do not have permission to access it, the HEAD request returns a generic 400 Bad Request, 403 Forbidden or 404 Not Found code. A message body is not included, so you cannot determine the exception beyond these HTTP response codes.

Authentication and authorization

General purpose buckets - Request to public buckets that grant the s3:ListBucket permission publicly do not need to be signed. All other HeadBucket requests must be authenticated and signed by using IAM credentials (access key ID and secret access key for the IAM identities). All headers with the x-amz- prefix, including x-amz-copy-source, must be signed. For more information, see REST Authentication.

Directory buckets - You must use IAM credentials to authenticate and authorize your access to the HeadBucket API operation, instead of using the temporary security credentials through the CreateSession API operation.

AWS CLI or SDKs handles authentication and authorization on your behalf.

Permissions

General purpose bucket permissions - To use this operation, you must have permissions to perform the s3:ListBucket action. The bucket owner has this permission by default and can grant this permission to others. For more information about permissions, see Managing access permissions to your Amazon S3 resources in the Amazon S3 User Guide.
Directory bucket permissions - You must have the s3express:CreateSession permission in the Action element of a policy. By default, the session is in the ReadWrite mode. If you want to restrict the access, you can explicitly set the s3express:SessionMode condition key to ReadOnly on the bucket.

For more information about example bucket policies, see Example bucket policies for S3 Express One Zone and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) identity-based policies for S3 Express One Zone in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

HTTP Host header syntax

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

Note

You must make requests for this API operation to the Zonal endpoint. These endpoints support virtual-hosted-style requests in the format https://bucket_name.s3express-az_id.region.amazonaws.com. Path-style requests are not supported. For more information, see Regional and Zonal endpoints in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Request Syntax


HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: Bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner: ExpectedBucketOwner

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Bucket

The bucket name.

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 API operation with an Object Lambda access point, provide the alias of the Object Lambda access point in place of the bucket name. If the Object Lambda access point alias in a request is not valid, the error code InvalidAccessPointAliasError is returned. For more information about InvalidAccessPointAliasError, see List of Error Codes.

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

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).

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200
x-amz-bucket-location-type: BucketLocationType
x-amz-bucket-location-name: BucketLocationName
x-amz-bucket-region: BucketRegion
x-amz-access-point-alias: AccessPointAlias

Response Elements

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

The response returns the following HTTP headers.

x-amz-access-point-alias

Indicates whether the bucket name used in the request is an access point alias.

Note

For directory buckets, the value of this field is false.

x-amz-bucket-location-name

The name of the location where the bucket will be created.

For directory buckets, the AZ ID of the Availability Zone where the bucket is created. An example AZ ID value is usw2-az1.

Note

This functionality is only supported by directory buckets.

x-amz-bucket-location-type

The type of location where the bucket is created.

Note

This functionality is only supported by directory buckets.

Valid Values: AvailabilityZone

x-amz-bucket-region

The Region that the bucket is located.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 20.

Errors

NoSuchBucket

The specified bucket does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

Examples

Sample Request for general purpose buckets

This example illustrates one usage of HeadBucket.



            HEAD / HTTP/1.1
            Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:34:55 GMT
            Authorization: authorization string
            Host: myawsbucket.s3.amazonaws.com
            Connection: Keep-Alive

Sample Response for general purpose buckets

This example illustrates one usage of HeadBucket.



            HTTP/1.1 200 OK
            x-amz-id-2: JuKZqmXuiwFeDQxhD7M8KtsKobSzWA1QEjLbTMTagkKdBX2z7Il/jGhDeJ3j6s80
            x-amz-request-id: 32FE2CEB32F5EE25
            x-amz-bucket-region: us-west-2
            x-amz-access-point-alias: false
            Date: Fri, 10 2012 21:34:56 GMT
            Server: AmazonS3