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When you configure your bucket as a static website, the website is available at the AWS Region-specific website endpoint of the bucket. Website endpoints are different from the endpoints where you send REST API requests.
Depending on your Region, your Amazon S3 website endpoint follows one of these two formats.
http://bucket-name.s3-website-Region.amazonaws.comhttp://bucket-name.s3-website.Region.amazonaws.comAmazon S3 website endpoints do not support HTTPS. For information about using HTTPS with an Amazon S3 bucket.
Requester Pays buckets do not allow access through the website endpoint. Any request to such a bucket receives a 403 Access Denied response.
If you have a registered domain, you can add a DNS CNAME entry to point to the Amazon S3 website endpoint. For example, if you registered the domain www.example-bucket.com, you could create a bucket www.example-bucket.com, and add a DNS CNAME record that points to www.example-bucket.com.s3-website.. All requests to Region.amazonaws.comhttp://www.example-bucket.com are routed to www.example-bucket.com.s3-website..Region.amazonaws.com
An Amazon S3 website endpoint is optimized for access from a web browser. The following table summarizes the key differences between a REST API endpoint and a website endpoint.
| Key difference | REST API endpoint | Website endpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Access control | Supports both public and private content | Supports only publicly readable content |
| Error message handling | Returns an XML-formatted error response | Returns an HTML document |
| Redirection support | Not applicable | Supports both object-level and bucket-level redirects |
| Requests supported | Supports all bucket and object operations | Supports only GET and HEAD requests on objects |
| Responses to GET and HEAD requests at the root of a bucket | Returns a list of the object keys in the bucket | Returns the index document that is specified in the website configuration |
| Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support | Supports SSL connections | Does not support SSL connections |