Amazon S3 GetBucketLocation API

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Returns the Region the bucket resides in. You set the bucket's Region using the LocationConstraint request parameter in a CreateBucket request. For more information, see CreateBucket.

To use this implementation of the operation, you must be the bucket owner.

The following operations are related to GetBucketLocation:

Request Syntax

GET /?location HTTP/1.1 Host: Bucket.s3.amazonaws.com

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Bucket

The name of the bucket for which to get the location.

Required: Yes

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax

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

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.

LocationConstraint

Root level tag for the LocationConstraint parameters.

Required: Yes

LocationConstraint

Specifies the Region where the bucket resides. For a list of all the Amazon S3 supported location constraints by Region, see Regions and Endpoints. Buckets in Region us-east-1 have a LocationConstraint of null.

Type: String

Valid Values: af-south-1 | ap-east-1 | ap-northeast-1 | ap-northeast-2 | ap-northeast-3 | ap-south-1 | ap-southeast-1 | ap-southeast-2 | ca-central-1 | cn-north-1 | cn-northwest-1 | EU | eu-central-1 | eu-north-1 | eu-south-1 | eu-west-1 | eu-west-2 | eu-west-3 | me-south-1 | sa-east-1 | us-east-2 | us-gov-east-1 | us-gov-west-1 | us-west-1 | us-west-2

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/">Europe</LocationConstraint>