This operation is not supported for directory buckets.
This action filters the contents of an Amazon S3 object based on a simple structured query language (SQL) statement. In the request, along with the SQL expression, you must also specify a data serialization format (JSON, CSV, or Apache Parquet) of the object. Amazon S3 uses this format to parse object data into records, and returns only records that match the specified SQL expression. You must also specify the data serialization format for the response.
This functionality is not supported for Amazon S3 on Outposts.
For more information about Amazon S3 Select, seeSelecting Content from Objects andSELECT Command in theAmazon S3 User Guide.
You must have thes3:GetObject
permission for this operation. Amazon S3 Select does not support anonymous access. For more information about permissions, seeSpecifying Permissions in a Policy in theAmazon S3 User Guide.
You can use Amazon S3 Select to query objects that have the following format properties:
CSV, JSON, and Parquet - Objects must be in CSV, JSON, or Parquet format.
UTF-8 - UTF-8 is the only encoding type Amazon S3 Select supports.
GZIP or BZIP2 - CSV and JSON files can be compressed using GZIP or BZIP2. GZIP and BZIP2 are the only compression formats that Amazon S3 Select supports for CSV and JSON files. Amazon S3 Select supports columnar compression for Parquet using GZIP or Snappy. Amazon S3 Select does not support whole-object compression for Parquet objects.
Server-side encryption - Amazon S3 Select supports querying objects that are protected with server-side encryption.
For objects that are encrypted with customer-provided encryption keys (SSE-C), you must use HTTPS, and you must use the headers that are documented in theGetObject. For more information about SSE-C, seeServer-Side Encryption (Using Customer-Provided Encryption Keys) in theAmazon S3 User Guide.
For objects that are encrypted with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) and AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS), server-side encryption is handled transparently, so you don't need to specify anything. For more information about server-side encryption, including SSE-S3 and SSE-KMS, seeProtecting Data Using Server-Side Encryption in theAmazon S3 User Guide.
Given the response size is unknown, Amazon S3 Select streams the response as a series of messages and includes aTransfer-Encoding
header withchunked
as its value in the response. For more information, seeAppendix: SelectObjectContent Response.
TheSelectObjectContent
action does not support the followingGetObject
functionality. For more information, seeGetObject.
Range
: Although you can specify a scan range for an Amazon S3 Select request (seeSelectObjectContentRequest - ScanRange in the request parameters), you cannot specify the range of bytes of an object to return.
TheGLACIER
,DEEP_ARCHIVE
, andREDUCED_REDUNDANCY
storage classes, or theARCHIVE_ACCESS
andDEEP_ARCHIVE_ACCESS
access tiers of theINTELLIGENT_TIERING
storage class: You cannot query objects in theGLACIER
,DEEP_ARCHIVE
, orREDUCED_REDUNDANCY
storage classes, nor objects in theARCHIVE_ACCESS
orDEEP_ARCHIVE_ACCESS
access tiers of theINTELLIGENT_TIERING
storage class. For more information about storage classes, seeUsing Amazon S3 storage classes in theAmazon S3 User Guide.
For a list of special errors for this operation, seeList of SELECT Object Content Error Codes
The following operations are related toSelectObjectContent
:
POST /{Key+}?select&select-type=2 HTTP/1.1Host:Bucket
.s3.amazonaws.comx-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm:SSECustomerAlgorithm
x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key:SSECustomerKey
x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5:SSECustomerKeyMD5
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner:ExpectedBucketOwner
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SelectObjectContentRequest xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"> <Expression>string
</Expression> <ExpressionType>string
</ExpressionType> <RequestProgress> <Enabled>boolean
</Enabled> </RequestProgress> <InputSerialization> <CompressionType>string
</CompressionType> <CSV> <AllowQuotedRecordDelimiter>boolean
</AllowQuotedRecordDelimiter> <Comments>string
</Comments> <FieldDelimiter>string
</FieldDelimiter> <FileHeaderInfo>string
</FileHeaderInfo> <QuoteCharacter>string
</QuoteCharacter> <QuoteEscapeCharacter>string
</QuoteEscapeCharacter> <RecordDelimiter>string
</RecordDelimiter> </CSV> <JSON> <Type>string
</Type> </JSON> <Parquet> </Parquet> </InputSerialization> <OutputSerialization> <CSV> <FieldDelimiter>string
</FieldDelimiter> <QuoteCharacter>string
</QuoteCharacter> <QuoteEscapeCharacter>string
</QuoteEscapeCharacter> <QuoteFields>string
</QuoteFields> <RecordDelimiter>string
</RecordDelimiter> </CSV> <JSON> <RecordDelimiter>string
</RecordDelimiter> </JSON> </OutputSerialization> <ScanRange> <End>long
</End> <Start>long
</Start> </ScanRange></SelectObjectContentRequest>
The request uses the following URI parameters.
The S3 bucket.
Required: Yes
The object key.
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.
Required: Yes
The account ID of the expected bucket owner. If the account ID that you provide does not match the actual owner of the bucket, the request fails with the HTTP status code403 Forbidden
(access denied).
The server-side encryption (SSE) algorithm used to encrypt the object. This parameter is needed only when the object was created using a checksum algorithm. For more information, seeProtecting data using SSE-C keys in theAmazon S3 User Guide.
The server-side encryption (SSE) customer managed key. This parameter is needed only when the object was created using a checksum algorithm. For more information, seeProtecting data using SSE-C keys in theAmazon S3 User Guide.
The MD5 server-side encryption (SSE) customer managed key. This parameter is needed only when the object was created using a checksum algorithm. For more information, seeProtecting data using SSE-C keys in theAmazon S3 User Guide.
The request accepts the following data in XML format.
Root level tag for the SelectObjectContentRequest parameters.
Required: Yes
The expression that is used to query the object.
Type: String
Required: Yes
The type of the provided expression (for example, SQL).
Type: String
Valid Values:SQL
Required: Yes
Describes the format of the data in the object that is being queried.
Type:InputSerialization data type
Required: Yes
Describes the format of the data that you want Amazon S3 to return in response.
Type:OutputSerialization data type
Required: Yes
Specifies if periodic request progress information should be enabled.
Type:RequestProgress data type
Required: No
Specifies the byte range of the object to get the records from. A record is processed when its first byte is contained by the range. This parameter is optional, but when specified, it must not be empty. See RFC 2616, Section 14.35.1 about how to specify the start and end of the range.
ScanRange
may be used in the following ways:
<scanrange><start>50</start><end>100</end></scanrange>
- process only the records starting between the bytes 50 and 100 (inclusive, counting from zero)
<scanrange><start>50</start></scanrange>
- process only the records starting after the byte 50
<scanrange><end>50</end></scanrange>
- process only the records within the last 50 bytes of the file.
Type:ScanRange data type
Required: No
HTTP/1.1 200<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Payload> <Records> <Payload>blob</Payload> </Records> <Stats> <Details> <BytesProcessed>long</BytesProcessed> <BytesReturned>long</BytesReturned> <BytesScanned>long</BytesScanned> </Details> </Stats> <Progress> <Details> <BytesProcessed>long</BytesProcessed> <BytesReturned>long</BytesReturned> <BytesScanned>long</BytesScanned> </Details> </Progress> <Cont> </Cont> <End> </End></Payload>
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in XML format by the service.
Root level tag for the Payload parameters.
Required: Yes
The Continuation Event.
Type:ContinuationEvent data type
The End Event.
Type:EndEvent data type
The Progress Event.
Type:ProgressEvent data type
The Records Event.
Type:RecordsEvent data type
The Stats Event.
Type:StatsEvent data type
The following select request retrieves all records from an object with data stored in CSV format. The OutputSerialization element directs Amazon S3 to return results in CSV.
You can try different queries in theExpression
element:
Assuming that you are not using column headers, you can identify columns using positional headers:
SELECT s._1, s._2 FROM S3Object s WHERE s._3 > 100
If you have column headers and you set theFileHeaderInfo
toUse
, you can identify columns by name in the expression:
SELECT s.Id, s.FirstName, s.SSN FROM S3Object s
You can specify functions in the SQL expression:
SELECT count(*) FROM S3Object s WHERE s._1 < 1
POST /exampleobject.csv?select&select-type=2 HTTP/1.1Host: examplebucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.comDate: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 01:49:52 GMTAuthorization: authorization stringContent-Length: content length<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SelectRequest> <Expression>Select * from S3Object</Expression> <ExpressionType>SQL</ExpressionType> <InputSerialization> <CompressionType>GZIP</CompressionType> <CSV> <FileHeaderInfo>IGNORE</FileHeaderInfo> <RecordDelimiter>\n</RecordDelimiter> <FieldDelimiter>,</FieldDelimiter> <QuoteCharacter>"</QuoteCharacter> <QuoteEscapeCharacter>"</QuoteEscapeCharacter> <Comments>#</Comments> </CSV> </InputSerialization> <OutputSerialization> <CSV> <QuoteFields>ASNEEDED</QuoteFields> <RecordDelimiter>\n</RecordDelimiter> <FieldDelimiter>,</FieldDelimiter> <QuoteCharacter>"</QuoteCharacter> <QuoteEscapeCharacter>"</QuoteEscapeCharacter> </CSV> </OutputSerialization></SelectRequest>
The following is a sample response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OKx-amz-id-2: GFihv3y6+kE7KG11GEkQhU7/2/cHR3Yb2fCb2S04nxI423Dqwg2XiQ0B/UZlzYQvPiBlZNRcovw=x-amz-request-id: 9F341CD3C4BA79E0Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:54:05 GMTA series of messages
The following select request retrieves all records from an object with data stored in JSON format. The OutputSerialization directs Amazon S3 to return results in CSV.
You can try different queries in theExpression
element:
You can filter by string comparison using record keys:
SELECT s.country, s.city from S3Object s where s.city = 'Seattle'
You can specify functions in the SQL expression:
SELECT count(*) FROM S3Object s
POST /exampleobject.json?select&select-type=2 HTTP/1.1Host: examplebucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.comDate: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 01:49:52 GMTAuthorization: authorization stringContent-Length: content length<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SelectRequest> <Expression>Select * from S3Object</Expression> <ExpressionType>SQL</ExpressionType> <InputSerialization> <CompressionType>GZIP</CompressionType> <JSON> <Type>DOCUMENT</Type> </JSON> </InputSerialization> <OutputSerialization> <CSV> <QuoteFields>ASNEEDED</QuoteFields> <RecordDelimiter>\n</RecordDelimiter> <FieldDelimiter>,</FieldDelimiter> <QuoteCharacter>"</QuoteCharacter> <QuoteEscapeCharacter>"</QuoteEscapeCharacter> </CSV> </OutputSerialization></SelectRequest>
The following is a sample response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OKx-amz-id-2: GFihv3y6+kE7KG11GEkQhU7/2/cHR3Yb2fCb2S04nxI423Dqwg2XiQ0B/UZlzYQvPiBlZNRcovw=x-amz-request-id: 9F341CD3C4BA79E0Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:54:05 GMTA series of messages
TheInputSerialization
element describes the format of the data in the object that is being queried. It must specifyCSV
,JSON
, orParquet
.
TheOutputSerialization
element describes the format of the data that you want Amazon S3 to return in response to the query. It must specifyCSV
,JSON
. Amazon S3 doesn't support outputting data in theParquet
format.
The format of theInputSerialization
doesn't need to match the format of theOutputSerialization
. So, for example, you can specifyJSON
in theInputSerialization
andCSV
in theOutputSerialization
.
POST /exampleobject.parquet?select&select-type=2 HTTP/1.1Host: examplebucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.comDate: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 01:49:52 GMTAuthorization: authorization stringContent-Length: content length<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SelectRequest> <Expression>Select * from S3Object</Expression> <ExpressionType>SQL</ExpressionType> <InputSerialization> <CompressionType>NONE</CompressionType> <Parquet> </Parquet> </InputSerialization> <OutputSerialization> <CSV> <QuoteFields>ASNEEDED</QuoteFields> <RecordDelimiter>\n</RecordDelimiter> <FieldDelimiter>,</FieldDelimiter> <QuoteCharacter>"</QuoteCharacter> <QuoteEscapeCharacter>"</QuoteEscapeCharacter> </CSV> </OutputSerialization></SelectRequest>
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: