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Amazon S3

Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points

Accelerate content transfers and failover between replicated datasets across AWS Regions

S3 Multi-Region Access Points getting started tutorial

Overview

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Multi-Region Access Points provide a global endpoint for routing Amazon S3 request traffic between AWS Regions. Each global endpoint routes Amazon S3 data request traffic from multiple sources, including traffic originating in Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), from on-premises data centers over AWS PrivateLink, and from the public internet without building complex networking configurations with separate endpoints. Establishing an AWS PrivateLink connection to an S3 Multi-Region Access Point allows you to route S3 requests into AWS, or across multiple AWS Regions and accounts over a private connection using a simple network architecture and configuration without the need to configure a VPC peering connection. With Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points failover controls, you can route all S3 data request traffic through a single global endpoint and directly control the shift of S3 data request traffic between AWS Regions at any time. During a planned or unplanned regional traffic disruption, failover controls let you control failover between buckets in different AWS Regions and accounts within minutes.

Overview video: S3 Multi-Region Access Points

Watch an in-depth overview on Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points which accelerate performance by up to 60% when accessing datasets that are replicated across multiple AWS Regions.

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Getting started with S3 Multi-Region Access Points

You can get started with S3 Multi-Region Access Points using the Amazon S3 API, CLI, SDKs, or the S3 console. The S3 console provides a guided workflow to configure S3 Multi-Region Access Points, S3 Cross-Region Replication Rules, and AWS VPC connections, including AWS PrivateLink.

In the S3 console, S3 Multi-Region Access Points show a centralized view of the underlying replication topology, failover controls, replication metrics, and your request routing configuration. This gives you an even easier way to build, manage, and monitor storage for multi-Region applications.

You can set up a S3 Multi-Region Access Point in three simple steps. First, you will receive an automatically generated S3 Multi-Region Access Point endpoint name, to which you can connect your clients. Second, you will select existing or create new S3 buckets that you would like to route requests between. Third, you will specify S3 Cross-Region Replication rules to apply to your buckets. Then, S3 will automatically create and configure your new multi-Region setup. Alternatively, you can use AWS CloudFormation to automate the creation and configuration of S3 Multi-Region Access Points. 

Access the S3 Multi-Region Access Points getting started tutorial and visit the user guide to get started.