This example shows how you can use the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to read and write blob data.

You will need an Amazon AWS account with a S3 bucket which you can use for testing. To configure the account you need to create a application-secrets.properties file in the src/main/resources folder with your access and secret key:

You should also update application.properties with the name of your S3 bucket:

Launch CloudS3Application to run the application. It will write to the S3 bucket then read and print the same file back again. You can use the online S3 browser to also view the file.

The spring-cloud-aws project provides integration between Spring and AWS. In this example we are using S3 resource support from spring-cloud-aws-context. We are also using spring-cloud-aws-autoconfigure to provide auto-reconfiguration with Spring Boot.

The S3 support allows you to use Spring’s ResourceLoader interface to access S3 URLs (s3://bucketname/filename.txt). The returned Resource instance can be used in the same way as any regular Spring Resource or cast to a WritableResource.