View details for your access points for directory buckets - Amazon Simple Storage Service

View details for your access points for directory buckets

This section explains how to view details for your access point for directory buckets using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or REST API.

View details of an access point for directory buckets to see the following information about the access point and the associated directory bucket:

  • Properties:

    • Directory bucket name

    • Directory bucket owner account ID

    • AWS Region

    • Directory bucket ___location type

    • Directory bucket ___location name

    • Creation date of access point

    • Network origin

    • VPC ID

    • S3 URI

    • Access point ARN

    • Access point alias

  • Permissions:

    • IAM external access analyzer findings

    • Access point scope

    • Access point policy

To view details for your access point in your AWS account

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/.

  2. In the navigation bar on the top of the page, choose the name of the currently displayed AWS Region. Next, choose the Region that you want to list access points for.

  3. In the navigation pane on the left side of the console, choose Access points for directory buckets.

  4. (Optional) Search for access points by name. Only access points in your selected AWS Region will appear here.

  5. Choose the name of the access point you want to manage.

  6. Select the Properties tab or the Permissions tab.

The following get-access-point example command shows how you can use the AWS CLI to view details for your access point.

The following command lists details for the access point my-access-point--zoneID--xa-s3 for AWS account 111122223333.

aws s3control get-access-point --name my-access-point--zoneID--xa-s3 --account-id 111122223333
Example of output of get-access-point command

{
    "Name": "example-access-point--zoneID--xa-s3",
    "Bucket": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket--zone-id--x-s3",
    "NetworkOrigin": "Internet",
    "PublicAccessBlockConfiguration": {
        "BlockPublicAcls": true,
        "IgnorePublicAcls": true,
        "BlockPublicPolicy": true,
        "RestrictPublicBuckets": true
    },
    "CreationDate": "2025-04-23T18:26:22.146000+00:00",
    "Alias": "example-access-point--zoneID--xa-s3",
    "AccessPointArn": "arn:aws:s3express:region:111122223333:accesspoint/example-access-point--zoneID--xa-s3",
    "BucketAccountId": "296805379465"
}

For more information and examples, see get-access-point in the AWS CLI Command Reference.

You can use the REST API to view details for your access point. For more information, see GetAccessPoint in the Amazon Simple Storage Service API Reference.

You can use the AWS SDKs to view details of your access points. For more information, see list of supported SDKs in the Amazon Simple Storage Service API Reference.