How can you programmatically get the endpoint value of the root domain for an S3 Bucket (static website) that was assigned by AWS via the SDK?

Question

For example: example.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com?

How can I get this value programmatically via the SDK? I can't seem to find it:

link to docs: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkforruby/api/Aws/S3.html

Answer 1

The value doesn't appear to be exposed by the S3 API, itself.

It is, however, easily derived from the bucket location, which is accessible via the S3 REST API, though it isn't obvious from skimming the docs whether this is implemented in the Ruby SDK, either, in spite of its presence in the underlying API. I didn't find it.

But the web site endpoints are always in this form:

${bucket}.s3-website-${region}.amazonaws.com

In us-east-1, as shown in the screen shot, the endpoint for a bucket named example.com fits this pattern, example.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#s3_region