Presigned URLs

Learn how to grant temporary access to your S3 objects using a presigned URL.

Presigned URLs are used to grant temporary access to the bucket. It is a time-bound URL that can be used to share and upload objects in a bucket.

How to create a presigned URL

The presigned URL can be created by anyone with valid security credentials. However, the entity with those credentials should have permission to perform the functions the presigned URL is being used for. This entity can be an IAM profile, a user, or a security token service. To create a presigned URL we require:

  • Name of the S3 bucket

  • The object key (If we are downloading the object using the presigned URL, ...