NAME

Amazon::S3 - A portable client library for working with and managing Amazon S3 buckets and keys.

SYNOPSIS

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Amazon::S3;

use vars qw/$OWNER_ID $OWNER_DISPLAYNAME/;

my $aws_access_key_id     = "Fill me in!";
my $aws_secret_access_key = "Fill me in too!";

my $s3 = Amazon::S3->new(
    {   aws_access_key_id     => $aws_access_key_id,
        aws_secret_access_key => $aws_secret_access_key,
        retry                 => 1
    }
);

my $response = $s3->buckets;

# create a bucket
my $bucket_name = $aws_access_key_id . '-net-amazon-s3-test';
my $bucket = $s3->add_bucket( { bucket => $bucket_name } )
    or die $s3->err . ": " . $s3->errstr;

# store a key with a content-type and some optional metadata
my $keyname = 'testing.txt';
my $value   = 'T';
$bucket->add_key(
    $keyname, $value,
    {   content_type        => 'text/plain',
        'x-amz-meta-colour' => 'orange',
    }
);

# list keys in the bucket
$response = $bucket->list
    or die $s3->err . ": " . $s3->errstr;
print $response->{bucket}."\n";
for my $key (@{ $response->{keys} }) {
      print "\t".$key->{key}."\n";  
}

# delete key from bucket
$bucket->delete_key($keyname);

# delete bucket
$bucket->delete_bucket;

DESCRIPTION

Amazon::S3 provides a portable client interface to Amazon Simple Storage System (S3).

This module is rather dated. For a much more robust and modern implementation of an S3 interface try Net::Amazon::S3. Amazon::S3 ostensibly was intended to be a drop-in replacement for Net:Amazon::S3 that "traded some performance in return for portability". That statement is no longer accurate as Net::Amazon::S3 implements much more of the S3 API and may have changed the interface in ways that might break your applications. However, Net::Amazon::S3 is today dependent on Moose which may in fact level the playing field in terms of performance penalties that may have been introduced by recent updates to Amazon::S3. YMMV, however, this module may still appeal to some that favor simplicity of the interface and a lower number of dependencies. Below is the original description of the module.

Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

To sign up for an Amazon Web Services account, required to use this library and the S3 service, please visit the Amazon Web Services web site at http://www.amazonaws.com/.

You will be billed accordingly by Amazon when you use this module and must be responsible for these costs.

To learn more about Amazon's S3 service, please visit: http://s3.amazonaws.com/.

The need for this module arose from some work that needed to work with S3 and would be distributed, installed and used on many various environments where compiled dependencies may not be an option. Net::Amazon::S3 used XML::LibXML tying it to that specific and often difficult to install option. In order to remove this potential barrier to entry, this module is forked and then modified to use XML::SAX via XML::Simple.

LIMITATIONS AND DIFFERENCES WITH EARLIER VERSIONS

As noted, this module is no longer a drop-in replacement for Net::Amazon::S3 and has limitations and differences that may make the use of this module in your applications questionable. Additionally, one of the original intents of this fork of Net::Amazon::S3 was to reduce the dependencies and make it easy to install. Recent changes to this module have introduced new dependencies in order to improve the maintainability and provide additional features. Installing CPAN modules is never easy, especially when the dependencies of the dependencies are impossible to control and include XS modules.

MINIMUM PERL

Technically, this module should run on versions 5.10 and above, however some of the dependencies may require higher versions of perl or some versions of the dependencies that conflict with other versions of dependencies...it's a crapshoot when dealing with older perl versions and CPAN modules.

You may however, be able to build this module by installing older versions of those dependencies and take your chances that those older versions provide enough working features to support Amazon::S3. It is likely they do...and this module has recently been tested on version 5.10.0 perl using some older CPAN modules to resolve dependency issues.

To build this module on an earlier version of perl you may need to downgrade some modules. In particular I have found this recipe to work for building and testing on 5.10.0.

In this order install:

HTML::HeadParser 2.14
LWP 6.13
Amazon::S3 0.55

...other versions may work...YMMV.

API Signing

Making calls to AWS APIs requires that the calls be signed. Amazon has added a new signing method (Signature Version 4) to increase security around their APIs. This module no longer utilizes Signature Version V2.

New regions after January 30, 2014 will only support Signature Version 4.

See "Signature Version V4" below for important details.>

Signature Version 4

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/sigv4-query-string-auth.html

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Unlike Signature Version 2, Version 4 requires a regional parameter. This implies that you need to supply the bucket's region when signing requests for any API call that involves a specific bucket. Starting with version 0.55 of this module, Amazon::S3::Bucket provides a new method (region() and accepts in the constructor a region parameter. If a region is not supplied, the region for the bucket will be set to the region set in the account object (Amazon::S3) that you passed to the bucket's new constructor. Alternatively, you can request that the bucket's new constructor determine the bucket's region for you by calling the get_location_constraint() method.

When signing API calls, the region for the specific bucket will be used. For calls that are not regional (buckets(), e.g.) the default region ('us-east-1') will be used.

Signature Version 2

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/RESTAuthentication.html

New APIs

This module does not support some of the newer API method calls for S3 added after the initial creation of this interface.

Multipart Upload Support

There is limited testing for multipart uploads.

For more information regarding multi-part uploads visit the link below.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_CreateMultipartUpload.html

METHODS AND SUBROUTINES

new

Create a new S3 client object. Takes some arguments:

credentials (optional)

Reference to a class (like Amazon::Credentials) that can provide credentials via the methods:

get_aws_access_key_id()
get_aws_secret_access_key()
get_token()

If you do not provide a credential class you must provide the keys when you instantiate the object. See below.

You are strongly encourage to use a class that provides getters. If you choose to provide your credentials to this class then they will be stored in this object. If you dump the class you will likely expose those credentials.

aws_access_key_id

Use your Access Key ID as the value of the AWSAccessKeyId parameter in requests you send to Amazon Web Services (when required). Your Access Key ID identifies you as the party responsible for the request.

aws_secret_access_key

Since your Access Key ID is not encrypted in requests to AWS, it could be discovered and used by anyone. Services that are not free require you to provide additional information, a request signature, to verify that a request containing your unique Access Key ID could only have come from you.

DO NOT INCLUDE THIS IN SCRIPTS OR APPLICATIONS YOU DISTRIBUTE. YOU'LL BE SORRY.

Consider using a credential class as described above to provide credentials, otherwise this class will store your credentials for signing the requests. If you dump this object to logs your credentials could be discovered.

token

An optional temporary token that will be inserted in the request along with your access and secret key. A token is used in conjunction with temporary credentials when your EC2 instance has assumed a role and you've scraped the temporary credentials from http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials

secure

Set this to a true value if you want to use SSL-encrypted connections when connecting to S3. Starting in version 0.49, the default is true.

default: true

timeout

Defines the time, in seconds, your script should wait or a response before bailing.

default: 30s

retry

Enables or disables the library to retry upon errors. This uses exponential backoff with retries after 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 seconds, as recommended by Amazon.

default: off

host

Defines the S3 host endpoint to use.

default: s3.amazonaws.com

Note that requests are made to domain buckets when possible. You can prevent that behavior if either the bucket name does conform to DNS bucket naming conventions or you preface the bucket name with '/'.

If you set a region then the host name will be modified accordingly if it is an Amazon endpoint.

region

The AWS region you where your bucket is located.

default: us-east-1

buffer_size

The default buffer size when reading or writing files.

default: 4096

signer

Sets or retrieves the signer object. API calls must be signed using your AWS credentials. By default, starting with version 0.54 the module will use Net::Amazon::Signature::V4 as the signer and instantiate a signer object in the constructor. Note however, that signers need your credentials and they will get stored by that class, making them susceptible to inadvertant exfiltration. You have a few options here:

1. Use your own signer.

You may have noticed that you can also provide your own credentials object forcing this module to use your object for retrieving credentials. Likewise, you can use your own signer so that this module's signer never sees or stores those credentials.

2. Pass the credentials object and set cache_signer to a false value.

If you pass a credentials object and set cache_signer to a false value, the module will use the credentials object to retrieve credentials and create a new signer each time an API call is made that requires signing. This prevents your credentials from being stored inside of the signer class.

Note that using your own credentials object that stores your credentials in plaintext is also going to expose your credentials when someone dumps the class.

3. Pass credentials, set cache_signer to a false value.

Unfortunately, while this will prevent Net::Amazon::Signature::V4 from hanging on to your credentials, you credentials will be stored in the Amazon::S3 object.

Starting with version 0.55 of this module, if you have installed Crypt::CBC and Crypt::Blowfish, your credentials will be encrypted using a random key created when the class is instantiated. While this is more secure than leaving them in plaintext, if the key is discovered (the key however is not stored in the object's hash) and the object is dumped, your encrypted credentials can be exposed.

4. Use very granular credentials for bucket access only.

Use credentials that only allow access to a bucket or portions of a bucket required for your application. This will at least limit the blast radius of any potential security breach.

5. Do nothing...send the credentials, use the default signer.

In this case, both the Amazon::S3 class and the Net::Amazon::Signature::V4 have your credentials. Caveat Emptor.

See Also Amazon::Credentials for more information about safely storing your credentials and preventing exfiltration.

region

Sets the region for the for the API calls. This will also be the default when instantiating the bucket object unless you pass the region parameter in the bucket method or use the verify_region flag that will always verify the region of the bucket using the get_location_constraint method.

default: us-east-1

buckets

buckets([verify-region])

verify-region (optional)

verify-region is a boolean value that indicates if the bucket's region should be verified when the bucket object is instantiated.

If set to true, this method will call the bucket method with verify_region set to true causing the constructor to call the get_location_constraint for each bucket to set the bucket's region. This will cause a significant decrease in the peformance of the buckets() method. Setting the region for each bucket is necessary since API operations on buckets require the region of the bucket when signing API requests. If all of your buckets are in the same region and you have passed a region parameter to your S3 object, then that region will be used when calling the constructor of your bucket objects.

default: false

Returns a HASHREF containging the metadata for all of the buckets owned by the accout or (see below) or undef on error.

owner_id

The owner ID of the bucket's owner.

owner_display_name

The name of the owner account.

buckets

Any ARRAYREF of Amazon::S3::Bucket objects for the account.

add_bucket

add_bucket(bucket-configuration)

bucket-configuration is a reference to a hash with bucket configuration parameters.

bucket

The name of the bucket. See Bucket name rules for more details on bucket naming rules.

acl_short (optional)

See the set_acl subroutine for documenation on the acl_short options

location_constraint

region

The region the bucket is to be created in.

Returns a Amazon::S3::Bucket object on success or undef on failure.

bucket

bucket(bucket, [region])

bucket({ bucket => bucket-name, verify_region => boolean, region => region });

Takes a scalar argument or refernce to a hash of arguments.

You can pass the region or set verify_region indicating that you want the bucket constructor to detemine the bucket region.

If you do not pass the region or set the verify_region value, the region will be set to the default region set in your Amazon::S3 object.

See Amazon::S3::Bucket for a complete description of the bucket method.

delete_bucket

Takes either a Amazon::S3::Bucket object or a HASHREF containing:

bucket

The name of the bucket to remove

region

Region the bucket is located in. If not provided, the method will determine the bucket's region by calling get_bucket_location.

Returns a boolean indicating the success of failure of the API call. Check err or errstr for error messages.

Note from the Amazon's documentation

If a bucket is empty, you can delete it. After a bucket is deleted, the name becomes available for reuse. However, after you delete the bucket, you might not be able to reuse the name for various reasons.

For example, when you delete the bucket and the name becomes available for reuse, another AWS account might create a bucket with that name. In addition, some time might pass before you can reuse the name of a deleted bucket. If you want to use the same bucket name, we recommend that you don't delete the bucket.

dns_bucket_names

Set or get a boolean that indicates whether to use DNS bucket names.

default: true

list_bucket, list_bucket_v2

List all keys in this bucket.

Takes a HASHREF of arguments:

bucket

REQUIRED. The name of the bucket you want to list keys on.

prefix

Restricts the response to only contain results that begin with the specified prefix. If you omit this optional argument, the value of prefix for your query will be the empty string. In other words, the results will be not be restricted by prefix.

delimiter

If this optional, Unicode string parameter is included with your request, then keys that contain the same string between the prefix and the first occurrence of the delimiter will be rolled up into a single result element in the CommonPrefixes collection. These rolled-up keys are not returned elsewhere in the response. For example, with prefix="USA/" and delimiter="/", the matching keys "USA/Oregon/Salem" and "USA/Oregon/Portland" would be summarized in the response as a single "USA/Oregon" element in the CommonPrefixes collection. If an otherwise matching key does not contain the delimiter after the prefix, it appears in the Contents collection.

Each element in the CommonPrefixes collection counts as one against the MaxKeys limit. The rolled-up keys represented by each CommonPrefixes element do not. If the Delimiter parameter is not present in your request, keys in the result set will not be rolled-up and neither the CommonPrefixes collection nor the NextMarker element will be present in the response.

NOTE: CommonPrefixes isn't currently supported by Amazon::S3.

max-keys

This optional argument limits the number of results returned in response to your query. Amazon S3 will return no more than this number of results, but possibly less. Even if max-keys is not specified, Amazon S3 will limit the number of results in the response. Check the IsTruncated flag to see if your results are incomplete. If so, use the Marker parameter to request the next page of results. For the purpose of counting max-keys, a 'result' is either a key in the 'Contents' collection, or a delimited prefix in the 'CommonPrefixes' collection. So for delimiter requests, max-keys limits the total number of list results, not just the number of keys.

marker

This optional parameter enables pagination of large result sets. marker specifies where in the result set to resume listing. It restricts the response to only contain results that occur alphabetically after the value of marker. To retrieve the next page of results, use the last key from the current page of results as the marker in your next request.

See also next_marker, below.

If marker is omitted,the first page of results is returned.

Returns undef on error and a HASHREF of data on success:

The HASHREF looks like this:

{
      bucket       => $bucket_name,
      prefix       => $bucket_prefix, 
      marker       => $bucket_marker, 
      next_marker  => $bucket_next_available_marker,
      max_keys     => $bucket_max_keys,
      is_truncated => $bucket_is_truncated_boolean
      keys          => [$key1,$key2,...]
 }

Explanation of bits of that:

is_truncated

B flag that indicates whether or not all results of your query were returned in this response. If your results were truncated, you can make a follow-up paginated request using the Marker parameter to retrieve the rest of the results.

next_marker

A convenience element, useful when paginating with delimiters. The value of next_marker, if present, is the largest (alphabetically) of all key names and all CommonPrefixes prefixes in the response. If the is_truncated flag is set, request the next page of results by setting marker to the value of next_marker. This element is only present in the response if the delimiter parameter was sent with the request.

Each key is a HASHREF that looks like this:

 {
    key           => $key,
    last_modified => $last_mod_date,
    etag          => $etag, # An MD5 sum of the stored content.
    size          => $size, # Bytes
    storage_class => $storage_class # Doc?
    owner_id      => $owner_id,
    owner_displayname => $owner_name
}

get_bucket_location

get_bucket_location(bucket-name)
get_bucket_locaiton(bucket-obj)

This is a convenience routines for the get_location_constraint() of the bucket object. This method will, however return the default region of 'us-east-1' when get_location_constraint() returns a null value.

my $region = $s3->get_bucket_location('my-bucket');

Starting with version 0.55, Amazon::S3::Bucket will call this get_location_constraint() to determine the region for the bucket. You can get the region for the bucket by using the region() method of the bucket object.

my $bucket = $s3->bucket('my-bucket');
my $bucket_region = $bucket->region;

get_logger

Returns the logger object. If you did not set a logger when you created the object then the an instance of Amazon::S3::Logger is returned. You can log to STDERR using this logger. For example:

$s3->get_logger->debug('this is a debug message');

$s3->get_logger->trace(sub { return Dumper([$response]) });

list_bucket_all, list_bucket_all_v2

List all keys in this bucket without having to worry about 'marker'. This is a convenience method, but may make multiple requests to S3 under the hood.

Takes the same arguments as list_bucket.

You are encouraged to use the newer list_bucket_all_v2 method.

err

The S3 error code for the last error encountered.

errstr

A human readable error string for the last error encountered.

error

The decoded XML string as a hash object of the last error.

last_response

Returns the last HTTP::Response object.

last_request

Returns the last HTTP::Request object.

level

Set the logging level.

default: error

turn_on_special_retry

Called to add extra retry codes if retry has been set

turn_off_special_retry

Called to turn off special retry codes when we are deliberately triggering them

ABOUT

This module contains code modified from Amazon that contains the following notice:

#  This software code is made available "AS IS" without warranties of any
#  kind.  You may copy, display, modify and redistribute the software
#  code either by itself or as incorporated into your code; provided that
#  you do not remove any proprietary notices.  Your use of this software
#  code is at your own risk and you waive any claim against Amazon
#  Digital Services, Inc. or its affiliates with respect to your use of
#  this software code. (c) 2006 Amazon Digital Services, Inc. or its
#  affiliates.

TESTING

Testing S3 is a tricky thing. Amazon wants to charge you a bit of money each time you use their service. And yes, testing counts as using. Because of this, the application's test suite skips anything approaching a real test unless you set these environment variables:

AMAZON_S3_EXPENSIVE_TESTS

Doesn't matter what you set it to. Just has to be set

AMAZON_S3_HOST

Sets the host to use for the API service.

default: s3.amazonaws.com

Note that if this value is set, DNS bucket name usage will be disabled for testing. Most likely, if you set this variable, you are using a mocking service and your bucket names are probably not resolvable. You can override this behavior by setting AWS_S3_DNS_BUCKET_NAMES to any value.

AWS_S3_DSN_BUCKET_NAMES

Set this to any value to override the default behavior of disabling DNS bucket names during testing.

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

Your AWS access key

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET

Your AWS sekkr1t passkey. Be forewarned that setting this environment variable on a shared system might leak that information to another user. Be careful.

AMAZON_S3_SKIP_ACL_TESTS

Doesn't matter what you set it to. Just has to be set if you want to skip ACLs tests.

AMAZON_S3_SKIP_REGION_CONSTRAINT_TEST

Doesn't matter what you set it to. Just has to be set if you want to skip region constraint test.

AMAZON_S3_MINIO

Doesn't matter what you set it to. Just has to be set if you want to skip tests that would fail on minio.

AMAZON_S3_LOCALSTACK

Doesn't matter what you set it to. Just has to be set if you want to skip tests that would fail on LocalStack.

AMAZON_S3_REGIONS

A comma delimited list of regions to use for testing. The default will only test creating a bucket in the local region.

Consider using an S3 mocking service like minio or LocalStack if you want to create real tests for your applications or this module.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

LOGGING AND DEBUGGING

Additional debugging information can be output to STDERR by setting the level option when you instantiate the Amazon::S3 object. Levels are represented as a string. The valid levels are:

fatal
error
warn
info
debug
trace

You can set an optionally pass in a logger that implements a subset of the Log::Log4perl interface. Your logger should support at least these method calls. If you do not supply a logger the default logger (Amazon::S3::Logger) will be used.

get_logger()
fatal()
error()
warn()
info()
debug()
trace()
level()

At the trace level, every HTTP request and response will be output to STDERR. At the debug level information regarding the higher level methods will be output to STDERR. There currently is no additional information logged at lower levels.

S3 LINKS OF INTEREST

Bucket restrictions and limitations

Bucket naming rules

Amazon S3 REST API

Authenticating Requests (AWS Signature Version 4)

Authenticating Requests (AWS Signature Version 2)

SUPPORT

Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at

<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Amazon-S3>

For other issues, contact the author.

AUTHOR

Original author: Timothy Appnel <tima@cpan.org>

Current maintainer: Rob Lauer <bigfoot@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

Amazon::S3::Bucket, Net::Amazon::S3

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This module was initially based on Net::Amazon::S3 0.41, by Leon Brocard. Net::Amazon::S3 was based on example code from Amazon with this notice:

This software code is made available "AS IS" without warranties of any kind. You may copy, display, modify and redistribute the software code either by itself or as incorporated into your code; provided that you do not remove any proprietary notices. Your use of this software code is at your own risk and you waive any claim against Amazon Digital Services, Inc. or its affiliates with respect to your use of this software code. (c) 2006 Amazon Digital Services, Inc. or its affiliates.

The software is released under the Artistic License. The terms of the Artistic License are described at http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html. Except where otherwise noted, Amazon::S3 is Copyright 2008, Timothy Appnel, tima@cpan.org. All rights reserved.

cpanm Amazon::S3

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Amazon::S3