Multi-Region Access Points in Amazon S3

Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points provide a global endpoint that applications can use to fulfill requests from S3 buckets located in multiple AWS Regions. You can use Multi-Region Access Points to build multi-Region applications with the same simple architecture used in a single Region, and then run those applications anywhere in the world. Instead of sending requests over the congested public internet, Multi-Region Access Points provide built-in network resilience with acceleration of internet-based requests to Amazon S3. Application requests made to a Multi-Region Access Point global endpoint use AWS Global Accelerator to automatically route over the AWS global network to the S3 bucket with the lowest network latency.

When you create a Multi-Region Access Point, you specify a set of Regions where you want to store data to be served through that Multi-Region Access Point. You can use S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) to synchronize data among buckets in those Regions. You can then request or write data through the Multi-Region Access Point global endpoint. Amazon S3 automatically serves the request to the replicated dataset from the available Region over the AWS global network with the lowest latency. Multi-Region Access Points are also compatible with applications running in Amazon virtual private clouds (VPCs), including those using AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3.

The following is a graphical representation of a Multi-Region Access Point and how it routes requests to buckets.