You can use the Amazon S3 Event Notifications feature to receive notifications when certain events happen in your S3 bucket. To enable notifications, add a notification configuration that identifies the events that you want Amazon S3 to publish. Make sure that it also identifies the destinations where you want Amazon S3 to send the notifications. You store this configuration in thenotification subresource that's associated with a bucket. For more information, seeGeneral purpose buckets configuration options. Amazon S3 provides an API for you to manage this subresource.

Overview of Amazon S3 Event Notifications

Currently, Amazon S3 can publish notifications for the following events:

For full descriptions of all the supported event types, seeSupported event types for SQS, SNS, and Lambda.

Amazon S3 can send event notification messages to the following destinations. You specify the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) value of these destinations in the notification configuration.

For more information, seeSupported event destinations.

For more information about the number of event notification configurations that you can create per bucket, seeAmazon S3 service quotas inAWS General Reference.

For more information about event notifications, see the following sections.

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