amazon.aws.s3_object module – Manage objects in S3

Note

This module is part of the amazon.aws collection (version 9.0.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install amazon.aws. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: amazon.aws.s3_object.

New in amazon.aws 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • This module allows the user to manage the objects and directories within S3 buckets. Includes support for creating and deleting objects and directories, retrieving objects as files or strings, generating download links and copying objects that are already stored in Amazon S3.

  • S3 buckets can be created or deleted using the amazon.aws.s3_bucket module.

  • Compatible with AWS, DigitalOcean, Ceph, Walrus, FakeS3 and StorageGRID.

  • When using non-AWS services, endpoint_url should be specified.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Aliases: aws_s3

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 3.6

  • boto3 >= 1.28.0

  • botocore >= 1.31.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

access_key

aliases: aws_access_key_id, aws_access_key, ec2_access_key

string

AWS access key ID.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.

The aws_access_key and profile options are mutually exclusive.

The aws_access_key_id alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the AWS botocore SDK.

The ec2_access_key alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

aws_ca_bundle

path

The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.

The AWS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable may also be used.

aws_config

dictionary

A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.

Parameters can be found in the AWS documentation https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config.

bucket

string / required

Bucket name.

ceph

aliases: rgw

boolean

Enable API compatibility with Ceph RGW.

It takes into account the S3 API subset working with Ceph in order to provide the same module behaviour where possible.

Requires endpoint_url if ceph=true.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

content

string

added in amazon.aws 1.3.0

The content to put into an object.

The parameter value will be treated as a string and converted to UTF-8 before sending it to S3.

To send binary data, use the content_base64 parameter instead.

One of content, content_base64 or src must be specified when mode=put otherwise ignored.

content_base64

string

added in amazon.aws 1.3.0

The base64-encoded binary data to put into an object.

Use this if you need to put raw binary data, and don’t forget to encode in base64.

One of content, content_base64 or src must be specified when mode=put otherwise ignored.

copy_src

dictionary

added in amazon.aws 2.0.0

The source details of the object to copy.

Required if mode=copy.

bucket

string / required

The name of the source bucket.

object

string

key name of the source object.

if not specified, all the objects of the copy_src.bucket will be copied into the specified bucket.

prefix

string

added in amazon.aws 6.2.0

Copy all the keys that begin with the specified prefix.

Ignored if copy_src.object is supplied.

Default: ""

version_id

string

version ID of the source object.

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs

boolean

Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook.

The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

dest

path

The destination file path when downloading an object/key when mode=get.

Ignored when mode is not get.

dualstack

boolean

Enables Amazon S3 Dual-Stack Endpoints, allowing S3 communications using both IPv4 and IPv6.

Support for passing dualstack and endpoint_url at the same time has been deprecated, the dualstack endpoints are automatically configured using the configured region. Support will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

encrypt

boolean

Asks for server-side encryption of the objects when mode=put or mode=copy.

Ignored when mode is neither put nor copy.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

encryption_kms_key_id

string

KMS key id to use when encrypting objects using encryption_mode=aws:kms.

Ignored if encryption_mode is not aws:kms.

encryption_mode

string

The encryption mode to use if encrypt=true.

Choices:

  • "AES256" ← (default)

  • "aws:kms"

endpoint_url

aliases: ec2_url, aws_endpoint_url, s3_url

string

URL to connect to instead of the default AWS endpoints. While this can be used to connection to other AWS-compatible services the amazon.aws and community.aws collections are only tested against AWS.

The AWS_URL or EC2_URL environment variables may also be used, in decreasing order of preference.

The ec2_url and s3_url aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_URL environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

expected_bucket_owner

string

added in amazon.aws 8.2.0

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 code 403 Forbidden (access denied).

expiry

aliases: expiration

integer

Time limit (in seconds) for the URL generated and returned by S3/Walrus when performing a mode=put or mode=geturl operation.

Ignored when mode is neither put nor geturl.

Default: 600

headers

dictionary

Custom headers to use when mode=put as a dictionary of key value pairs.

Ignored when mode is not put.

ignore_nonexistent_bucket

boolean

Overrides initial bucket lookups in case bucket or IAM policies are restrictive.

This can be useful when a user may have the GetObject permission but no other permissions. In which case using mode=get will fail unless ignore_nonexistent_bucket=true is specified.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

marker

string

Specifies the key to start with when using list mode. Object keys are returned in alphabetical order, starting with key after the marker in order.

max_keys

integer

Max number of results to return when mode=list

When not set, all keys will be returned.

Ignored when mode is not list.

metadata

dictionary

Metadata to use when mode=put or mode=copy as a dictionary of key value pairs.

mode

string / required

Switches the module behaviour between

put: upload

get: download

geturl: return download URL

getstr: download object as string

list: list keys

create: create bucket directories

delobj: delete object

copy: copy object that is already stored in another bucket

Support for creating and deleting buckets was removed in release 6.0.0. To create and manage the bucket itself please use the amazon.aws.s3_bucket module.

Support for list has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2026-11-01. The amazon.aws.s3_object_info module should be used instead of list.

Choices:

  • "get"

  • "put"

  • "create"

  • "geturl"

  • "getstr"

  • "delobj"

  • "list"

  • "copy"

object

string

Key name of the object inside the bucket.

Can be used to create “virtual directories”, see examples.

Object key names should not include the leading /, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-keys.html for more information.

Support for passing the leading / has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2025-12-01.

overwrite

aliases: force

string

Force overwrite either locally on the filesystem or remotely with the object/key.

Used when mode=put or mode=get.

Ignored when when mode is neither put nor get.

Must be a Boolean, always, never, different or latest.

true is the same as always.

false is equal to never.

When this is set to different the MD5 sum of the local file is compared with the ‘ETag’ of the object/key in S3. The ETag may or may not be an MD5 digest of the object data. See the ETag response header here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTCommonResponseHeaders.html.

When mode=get and overwrite=latest the last modified timestamp of local file is compared with the ‘LastModified’ of the object/key in S3.

Default: "different"

permission

list / elements=string

This option lets the user set the canned permissions on the object/bucket that are created. The permissions that can be set are private, public-read, public-read-write, authenticated-read for a bucket or private, public-read, public-read-write, aws-exec-read, authenticated-read, bucket-owner-read, bucket-owner-full-control for an object. Multiple permissions can be specified as a list; although only the first one will be used during the initial upload of the file.

For a full list of permissions see the AWS documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/acl-overview.html#canned-acl.

Choices:

  • "private" ← (default)

  • "public-read"

  • "public-read-write"

  • "aws-exec-read"

  • "authenticated-read"

  • "bucket-owner-read"

  • "bucket-owner-full-control"

Default: ["private"]

prefix

string

Limits the response to keys that begin with the specified prefix for list mode.

Default: ""

profile

aliases: aws_profile

string

A named AWS profile to use for authentication.

See the AWS documentation for more information about named profiles https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html.

The AWS_PROFILE environment variable may also be used.

The profile option is mutually exclusive with the aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token options.

purge_tags

boolean

If purge_tags=true and tags is set, existing tags will be purged from the resource to match exactly what is defined by tags parameter.

If the tags parameter is not set then tags will not be modified, even if purge_tags=True.

Tag keys beginning with aws: are reserved by Amazon and can not be modified. As such they will be ignored for the purposes of the purge_tags parameter. See the Amazon documentation for more information https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_tagging.html#tag-conventions.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region

string

The AWS region to use.

For global services such as IAM, Route53 and CloudFront, region is ignored.

The AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variables may also be used.

See the Amazon AWS documentation for more information http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region.

The ec2_region alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01

Support for the EC2_REGION environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

retries

aliases: retry

integer

On recoverable failure, how many times to retry before actually failing.

Default: 0

secret_key

aliases: aws_secret_access_key, aws_secret_key, ec2_secret_key

string

AWS secret access key.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.

The secret_key and profile options are mutually exclusive.

The aws_secret_access_key alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the AWS botocore SDK.

The ec2_secret_key alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

session_token

aliases: aws_session_token, security_token, aws_security_token, access_token

string

AWS STS session token for use with temporary credentials.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.

The security_token and profile options are mutually exclusive.

Aliases aws_session_token and session_token were added in release 3.2.0, with the parameter being renamed from security_token to session_token in release 6.0.0.

The security_token, aws_security_token, and access_token aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_SECRET_KEY and AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variables has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

sig_v4

boolean

added in amazon.aws 5.0.0

Forces the Boto SDK to use Signature Version 4.

Only applies to get modes, mode=get, mode=getstr, mode=geturl.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

src

path

The source file path when performing a put operation.

One of content, content_base64 or src must be specified when mode=put otherwise ignored.

tags

aliases: resource_tags

dictionary

A dictionary representing the tags to be applied to the resource.

If the tags parameter is not set then tags will not be modified.

validate_bucket_name

boolean

added in amazon.aws 3.1.0

Whether the bucket name should be validated to conform to AWS S3 naming rules.

On by default, this may be disabled for S3 backends that do not enforce these rules.

See the Amazon documentation for more information about bucket naming rules https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/bucketnamingrules.html.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

validate_certs

boolean

When set to false, SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with the AWS APIs.

Setting validate_certs=false is strongly discouraged, as an alternative, consider setting aws_ca_bundle instead.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

version

string

Version ID of the object inside the bucket. Can be used to get a specific version of a file if versioning is enabled in the target bucket.

Notes

Note

  • Support for tags and purge_tags was added in release 2.0.0.

  • In release 5.0.0 the s3_url parameter was merged into the endpoint_url parameter, s3_url remains as an alias for endpoint_url.

  • For Walrus endpoint_url should be set to the FQDN of the endpoint with neither scheme nor path.

  • Support for the S3_URL environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01, please use the endpoint_url parameter or the AWS_URL environment variable.

  • Support for creating and deleting buckets was removed in release 6.0.0.

  • Caution: For modules, environment variables and configuration files are read from the Ansible ‘host’ context and not the ‘controller’ context. As such, files may need to be explicitly copied to the ‘host’. For lookup and connection plugins, environment variables and configuration files are read from the Ansible ‘controller’ context and not the ‘host’ context.

  • The AWS SDK (boto3) that Ansible uses may also read defaults for credentials and other settings, such as the region, from its configuration files in the Ansible ‘host’ context (typically ~/.aws/credentials). See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html for more information.

Examples

- name: Simple PUT operation
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    object: /my/desired/key.txt
    src: /usr/local/myfile.txt
    mode: put

- name: PUT operation from a rendered template
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    object: /object.yaml
    content: "{{ lookup('template', 'templates/object.yaml.j2') }}"
    mode: put

- name: Simple PUT operation in Ceph RGW S3
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    object: /my/desired/key.txt
    src: /usr/local/myfile.txt
    mode: put
    ceph: true
    endpoint_url: "http://localhost:8000"

- name: Simple GET operation
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    object: /my/desired/key.txt
    dest: /usr/local/myfile.txt
    mode: get

- name: Get a specific version of an object.
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    object: /my/desired/key.txt
    version: 48c9ee5131af7a716edc22df9772aa6f
    dest: /usr/local/myfile.txt
    mode: get

- name: PUT/upload with metadata
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    object: /my/desired/key.txt
    src: /usr/local/myfile.txt
    mode: put
    metadata:
      Content-Encoding: gzip
      Cache-Control: no-cache

- name: PUT/upload with custom headers
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    object: /my/desired/key.txt
    src: /usr/local/myfile.txt
    mode: put
    headers: 'x-amz-grant-full-control=emailAddress=owner@example.com'

- name: List keys simple
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    mode: list

- name: List keys all options
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    mode: list
    prefix: /my/desired/
    marker: /my/desired/0023.txt
    max_keys: 472

- name: GET an object but don't download if the file checksums match. New in 2.0
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    object: /my/desired/key.txt
    dest: /usr/local/myfile.txt
    mode: get
    overwrite: different

- name: Delete an object from a bucket
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    object: /my/desired/key.txt
    mode: delobj

- name: Copy an object already stored in another bucket
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    object: /my/desired/key.txt
    mode: copy
    copy_src:
      bucket: srcbucket
      object: /source/key.txt

- name: Copy all the objects with name starting with 'ansible_'
  amazon.aws.s3_object:
    bucket: mybucket
    mode: copy
    copy_src:
      bucket: srcbucket
      prefix: 'ansible_'

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

contents

string

Contents of the object as string.

Returned: (for getstr operation)

Sample: "Hello, world!"

expiry

integer

Number of seconds the presigned url is valid for.

Returned: (for geturl operation)

Sample: 600

msg

string

Message indicating the status of the operation.

Returned: always

Sample: "PUT operation complete"

s3_keys

list / elements=string

List of object keys.

Returned: (for list operation)

Sample: ["prefix1/", "prefix1/key1", "prefix1/key2"]

tags

dictionary

Tags of the s3 object.

Returned: always

Sample: {"Owner": "dev001", "env": "test"}

url

string

URL of the object.

Returned: (for put and geturl operations)

Sample: "https://my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/my-key.txt?AWSAccessKeyId=<access-key>&Expires=1506888865&Signature=<signature>"

Authors

  • Lester Wade (@lwade)

  • Sloane Hertel (@s-hertel)

  • Alina Buzachis (@alinabuzachis)