Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
Accelerate content transfers and failover between replicated datasets across AWS Regions
Overview
Overview video: S3 Multi-Region Access Points
Benefits
Accelerate multi-Region applications
Simplify the development of multi-Region applications
Failover Amazon S3 data request traffic between AWS Regions
Cost-optimize secondary and tertiary data copies
Efficiently manage your global storage footprint
Use cases
Failover from a regional traffic disruption
Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points failover controls let you control the shift of S3 data request traffic between AWS Regions and redirect S3 traffic away from disruptions within minutes, to help build more highly available applications. With failover controls, you can operate S3 Multi-Region Access Points in an active-passive configuration and initiate a failover to shift S3 data request traffic to the chosen alternate AWS Region within minutes.
Test application resiliency and business continuity on demand
Test application resiliency against a regional traffic disruption to conduct application failure scenario testing and perform disaster recovery simulations. Easily shift S3 data request traffic through an S3 Multi-Region Access Point global endpoint from an active AWS Region to a passive AWS Region within minutes.
Connecting to S3 from an AWS Region, but not in a VPC
Clients such as public EC2 instances, EC2 instances using Internet Gateways (IGWs), and on premises that must connect to and accelerate requests to S3 can simplify applications and network architecture with a S3 Multi-Region Access Point. These requests will be routed over the AWS Global Network and then back to S3 within the Region without having to transverse the public internet to the lowest latency AWS Region.
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.