Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story

Last week we made a fairly quiet (too quiet, in fact) announcement of our plan to slowly and carefully deprecate the path-based access model that is used to specify the address of an object in an S3 bucket. The path-style model looks like either this (the global S3 endpoint):

Or this (one of the regional S3 endpoints):

In this example, and are bucket names; and are object keys. If you have data in a bucket with a non-routable name and you want to switch to virtual-host requests, you can use the new S3 Batch Operations feature to move the data.

Source: aws.amazon.com