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API Reference (API Version 2006-03-01)

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GET Bucket location

Description

This implementation of the GET operation uses the location subresource to return a bucket's region. You set the bucket's region using the LocationConstraint request parameter in a PUT Bucket request. For more information, see PUT Bucket.

To use this operation in an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy, 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 Permissions Related to Bucket Operations and Managing Access Permissions to Your Amazon S3 Resources in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide.

Requests

Syntax

GET /?location HTTP/1.1
Host: BucketName.s3.amazonaws.com
Date: date
Authorization: authorization string (see Authenticating Requests (AWS Signature Version
		4))

Request Parameters

This implementation of the operation does not use request parameters.

Request Headers

This implementation of the operation uses only request headers that are common to all operations. For more information, see Common Request Headers.

Request Elements

This implementation of the operation does not use request elements.

Responses

Response Headers

This implementation of the operation uses only response headers that are common to most responses. For more information, see Common Response Headers.

Response Elements

Name Description
LocationConstraint

Specifies the region where the bucket resides.

Type: String

Valid Values: For a list of all the Amazon S3 supported location constraints by region, see Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference.

Ancestry: None

When the bucket's region is US East (N. Virginia), Amazon S3 returns an empty string for the bucket's region: 

<LocationConstraint xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"/>

Special Errors

This implementation of the operation does not return special errors. For general information about Amazon S3 errors and a list of error codes, see Error Responses.

Examples

Sample Request

The following request returns the region of the specified bucket.

GET /?location HTTP/1.1
Host: myBucket.s3.amazonaws.com
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:26:04 +0000
Authorization: signatureValue
Sample Response
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<LocationConstraint xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">EU</LocationConstraint>

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