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Public object in a private bucket

Posted on September 7, 2018

Is it possible to have a “public readable” object in a private bucket ? Can we change the access level via s3 api ?



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Because object storage doesn’t have an actual directory structure in the traditional sense bucket or directory permissions aren’t inherited by objects. They are managed independently. So you can have a public object in a private bucket.

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