Share an Object with Others

All objects by default are private. Only the object owner has permission to access these objects. However, the object owner can optionally share objects with others by creating a pre-signed URL, using their own security credentials, to grant time-limited permission to download the objects.

When you create a pre-signed URL for your object, you must provide your security credentials, specify a bucket name, an object key, specify the HTTP method (GET to download the object) and expiration date and time. The pre-signed URLs are valid only for the specified duration.

Anyone who recieves the pre-signed URL can then access the object. For example, if you have a video in your bucket and both the bucket and the object are private, you can share the video with others by generating a pre-signed URL.

	Note
	Anyone with valid security credentials can create a pre-signed URL. However, in order to successfully access an object, the pre-signed URL must be created by someone who has permission to perform the operation that the pre-signed URL is based upon.

You can generate pre-signed URL programmatically using the AWS SDK for Java and .NET.