aws s3api head-object

The HEAD action retrieves metadata from an object without returning the object itself. This action is useful if you're only interested in an object's metadata. To use HEAD, you must have READ access to the object. A HEAD request has the same options as a GET action on an object. The response is identical to the GET response except that there is no response body. Because of this, if the HEAD request generates an error, it returns a generic 404 Not Found or 403 Forbidden code. It is not possible to retrieve the exact exception beyond these error codes. If you encrypt an object by using server-side encryption with customer-provided encryption keys (SSE-C) when you store the object in Amazon S3, then when you retrieve the metadata from the object, you must use the following headers: x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5 For more information about SSE-C, see Server-Side Encryption (Using Customer-Provided Encryption Keys). Encryption request headers, like x-amz-server-side-encryption, should not be sent for GET requests if your object uses server-side encryption with CMKs stored in AWS KMS (SSE-KMS) or server-side encryption with Amazon S3–managed encryption keys (SSE-S3). If your object does use these types of keys, you’ll get an HTTP 400 BadRequest error. The last modified property in this case is the creation date of the object. Request headers are limited to 8 KB in size. For more information, see Common Request Headers. Consider the following when using request headers: Consideration 1 – If both of the If-Match and If-Unmodified-Since headers are present in the request as follows: If-Match condition evaluates to true, and; If-Unmodified-Since condition evaluates to false; Then Amazon S3 returns 200 OK and the data requested. Consideration 2 – If both of the If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since headers are present in the request as follows: If-None-Match condition evaluates to false, and; If-Modified-Since condition evaluates to true; Then Amazon S3 returns the 304 Not Modified response code. For more information about conditional requests, see RFC 7232. Permissions You need the s3:GetObject permission for this operation. For more information, see Specifying Permissions in a Policy. If the object you request does not exist, the error Amazon S3 returns depends on whether you also have the s3:ListBucket permission. If you have the s3:ListBucket permission on the bucket, Amazon S3 returns an HTTP status code 404 ("no such key") error. If you don’t have the s3:ListBucket permission, Amazon S3 returns an HTTP status code 403 ("access denied") error. The following action is related to HeadObject: GetObject

Options

NameDescription
--bucket <string>The name of the bucket containing the object. When using this action with an access point, you must direct requests to the access point hostname. The access point hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.s3-accesspoint.Region.amazonaws.com. When using this action with an access point through the AWS SDKs, you provide the access point ARN in place of the bucket name. For more information about access point ARNs, see Using Access Points in the Amazon S3 User Guide. When using this action with Amazon S3 on Outposts, you must direct requests to the S3 on Outposts hostname. The S3 on Outposts hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.outpostID.s3-outposts.Region.amazonaws.com. When using this action using S3 on Outposts through the AWS SDKs, you provide the Outposts bucket ARN in place of the bucket name. For more information about S3 on Outposts ARNs, see Using S3 on Outposts in the Amazon S3 User Guide
--if-match <string>Return the object only if its entity tag (ETag) is the same as the one specified, otherwise return a 412 (precondition failed)
--if-modified-since <timestamp>Return the object only if it has been modified since the specified time, otherwise return a 304 (not modified)
--if-none-match <string>Return the object only if its entity tag (ETag) is different from the one specified, otherwise return a 304 (not modified)
--if-unmodified-since <timestamp>Return the object only if it has not been modified since the specified time, otherwise return a 412 (precondition failed)
--key <string>The object key
--range <string>Downloads the specified range bytes of an object. For more information about the HTTP Range header, see http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.35. Amazon S3 doesn't support retrieving multiple ranges of data per GET request
--version-id <string>VersionId used to reference a specific version of the object
--sse-customer-algorithm <string>Specifies the algorithm to use to when encrypting the object (for example, AES256)
--sse-customer-key <string>Specifies the customer-provided encryption key for Amazon S3 to use in encrypting data. This value is used to store the object and then it is discarded; Amazon S3 does not store the encryption key. The key must be appropriate for use with the algorithm specified in the x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm header
--sse-customer-key-md5 <string>Specifies the 128-bit MD5 digest of the encryption key according to RFC 1321. Amazon S3 uses this header for a message integrity check to ensure that the encryption key was transmitted without error
--request-payer <string>Confirms that the requester knows that they will be charged for the request. Bucket owners need not specify this parameter in their requests. For information about downloading objects from requester pays buckets, see Downloading Objects in Requestor Pays Buckets in the Amazon S3 Developer Guide
--part-number <integer>Part number of the object being read. This is a positive integer between 1 and 10,000. Effectively performs a 'ranged' HEAD request for the part specified. Useful querying about the size of the part and the number of parts in this object
--expected-bucket-owner <string>The account ID of the expected bucket owner. If the bucket is owned by a different account, the request will fail with an HTTP 403 (Access Denied) error
--cli-input-json <string>Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by ``--generate-cli-skeleton``. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally
--generate-cli-skeleton <string>Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value ``input``, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for ``--cli-input-json``. If provided with the value ``output``, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command