Sharing your S3 data temporarily using a presigned URL
S3 presigned URLs provide a secure and controlled way to grant time-limited access to S3 objects. You can specify an expiration time when generating the URL, after which the URL becomes invalid. Presigned URLs can have specific permissions associated with them; you can generate URLs that allow only specific actions (such as read, write, or both) on individual objects. This provides granular control over which operations can be performed on the object while minimizing the exposure of your AWS credentials, as you can avoid the need to embed AWS access credentials directly into your application or to share your AWS access keys.
In this recipe, we will learn how to create a presigned URL to download an S3 object.
Getting ready
This recipe assumes that you have an S3 bucket with an object that you will be creating a presigned URL for. Also, you need to perform these steps using a user who has access to download the object as...
