Request Syntax URI Request Parameters Request Body Response Syntax Response Elements See Also

CreateBucketMetadataTableConfiguration

Important

We recommend that you create your S3 Metadata configurations by using the V2 CreateBucketMetadataConfiguration API operation. We no longer recommend using the V1 CreateBucketMetadataTableConfiguration API operation.

If you created your S3 Metadata configuration before July 15, 2025, we recommend that you delete and re-create your configuration by using CreateBucketMetadataConfiguration so that you can expire journal table records and create a live inventory table.

Creates a V1 S3 Metadata configuration for a general purpose bucket. For more information, see Accelerating data discovery with S3 Metadata in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Permissions

To use this operation, you must have the following permissions. For more information, see Setting up permissions for configuring metadata tables in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

If you want to encrypt your metadata tables with server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys (SSE-KMS), you need additional permissions. For more information, see Setting up permissions for configuring metadata tables in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

If you also want to integrate your table bucket with AWS analytics services so that you can query your metadata table, you need additional permissions. For more information, see Integrating Amazon S3 Tables with AWS analytics services in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

s3:CreateBucketMetadataTableConfiguration
s3tables:CreateNamespace
s3tables:GetTable
s3tables:CreateTable
s3tables:PutTablePolicy

The following operations are related to CreateBucketMetadataTableConfiguration:

Request Syntax


POST /?metadataTable HTTP/1.1
Host: Bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
Content-MD5: ContentMD5
x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm: ChecksumAlgorithm
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner: ExpectedBucketOwner
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MetadataTableConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
   <S3TablesDestination>
      <TableBucketArn>string</TableBucketArn>
      <TableName>string</TableName>
   </S3TablesDestination>
</MetadataTableConfiguration>

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Bucket

The general purpose bucket that you want to create the metadata table configuration for.

Required: Yes

Content-MD5

The Content-MD5 header for the metadata table configuration.

x-amz-expected-bucket-owner

The expected owner of the general purpose bucket that corresponds to your metadata table configuration.

x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm

The checksum algorithm to use with your metadata table configuration.

Valid Values: CRC32 | CRC32C | SHA1 | SHA256 | CRC64NVME

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in XML format.

MetadataTableConfiguration

Root level tag for the MetadataTableConfiguration parameters.

Required: Yes

S3TablesDestination

The destination information for the metadata table configuration. The destination table bucket must be in the same Region and AWS account as the general purpose bucket. The specified metadata table name must be unique within the aws_s3_metadata namespace in the destination table bucket.

Type: S3TablesDestination data type

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.