Amazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects

Amazon S3 Metadata now provides complete visibility into all your existing objects in your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, expanding beyond new objects and changes. With this expanded coverage, you can analyze and query metadata for your entire S3 storage footprint.

Today, many customers rely on Amazon S3 to store unstructured data at scale. To understand what’s in a bucket, you often need to build and maintain custom systems that scan for objects, track changes, and manage metadata over time. These systems are expensive to maintain and hard to keep up to date as data grows.

Since the launch of S3 Metadata at re:Invent 2024, you’ve been able to query new and updated object metadata using metadata tables instead of relying on Amazon S3 Inventory or object-level APIs such as ListObjects, HeadObject, and GetObject—which can introduce latency and impact downstream workflows.

To make it ...