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View An Object
Now that you've added an object to a bucket, you can open and view it in a browser. You can optionally save the object locally.
To open or download an object
In the Amazon S3 console, right-click the objects you want to open.
Click Open to open the object in the browser or Download to save the object locally.
The object opens in your browser, or if you are downloading the object a dialog opens for you to specify folder location where you want the object saved.
You've opened your object.
![[Note]](http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/docs-common/images/note.png) | Note |
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By default your Amazon S3 buckets and objects are private. To view object using a URL, for example, https://s3.amazonaws.com/Bucket/Object the object must be publicly readable. Otherwise, you will need to create signed URL that includes a signature with authentication information. |
