End of support notice: Beginning October 1, 2025, Amazon S3 will stop returning DisplayName
. Update your applications to use canonical IDs (unique identifier for AWS accounts), AWS account ID (12 digit identifier) or IAM ARNs (full resource naming) as a direct replacement of DisplayName
.
Between July 15, 2025 and October 1, 2025, you will begin to see an increasing rate of missing DisplayName
in the Owner object.
This change affects the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia) Region, US West (N. California) Region, US West (Oregon) Region, Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region, Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, Europe (Ireland) Region, and South America (São Paulo) Region.
NoteThis operation is not supported for directory buckets.
Returns metadata about all versions of the objects in a bucket. You can also use request parameters as selection criteria to return metadata about a subset of all the object versions.
ImportantTo use this operation, you must have permission to perform the s3:ListBucketVersions
action. Be aware of the name difference.
A 200 OK
response can contain valid or invalid XML. Make sure to design your application to parse the contents of the response and handle it appropriately.
To use this operation, you must have READ access to the bucket.
The following operations are related to ListObjectVersions
:
You must URL encode any signed header values that contain spaces. For example, if your header value is my file.txt
, containing two spaces after my
, you must URL encode this value to my%20%20file.txt
.
GET /?versions&delimiter=Delimiter
&encoding-type=EncodingType
&key-marker=KeyMarker
&max-keys=MaxKeys
&prefix=Prefix
&version-id-marker=VersionIdMarker
HTTP/1.1
Host: Bucket
.s3.amazonaws.com
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner: ExpectedBucketOwner
x-amz-request-payer: RequestPayer
x-amz-optional-object-attributes: OptionalObjectAttributes
URI Request Parameters
The request uses the following URI parameters.
The bucket name that contains the objects.
Required: Yes
A delimiter is a character that you specify to group keys. All keys that contain the same string between the prefix
and the first occurrence of the delimiter are grouped under a single result element in CommonPrefixes
. These groups are counted as one result against the max-keys
limitation. These keys are not returned elsewhere in the response.
CommonPrefixes
is filtered out from results if it is not lexicographically greater than the key-marker.
Encoding type used by Amazon S3 to encode the object keys in the response. Responses are encoded only in UTF-8. An object key can contain any Unicode character. However, the XML 1.0 parser can't parse certain characters, such as characters with an ASCII value from 0 to 10. For characters that aren't supported in XML 1.0, you can add this parameter to request that Amazon S3 encode the keys in the response. For more information about characters to avoid in object key names, see Object key naming guidelines.
NoteWhen using the URL encoding type, non-ASCII characters that are used in an object's key name will be percent-encoded according to UTF-8 code values. For example, the object test_file(3).png
will appear as test_file%283%29.png
.
Valid Values: url
Specifies the key to start with when listing objects in a bucket.
Sets the maximum number of keys returned in the response. By default, the action returns up to 1,000 key names. The response might contain fewer keys but will never contain more. If additional keys satisfy the search criteria, but were not returned because max-keys
was exceeded, the response contains <isTruncated>true</isTruncated>
. To return the additional keys, see key-marker
and version-id-marker
.
Use this parameter to select only those keys that begin with the specified prefix. You can use prefixes to separate a bucket into different groupings of keys. (You can think of using prefix
to make groups in the same way that you'd use a folder in a file system.) You can use prefix
with delimiter
to roll up numerous objects into a single result under CommonPrefixes
.
Specifies the object version you want to start listing from.
The account ID of the expected bucket owner. If the account ID that you provide does not match the actual owner of the bucket, the request fails with the HTTP status code 403 Forbidden
(access denied).
Specifies the optional fields that you want returned in the response. Fields that you do not specify are not returned.
Valid Values: RestoreStatus
Confirms that the requester knows that they will be charged for the request. Bucket owners need not specify this parameter in their requests. If either the source or destination S3 bucket has Requester Pays enabled, the requester will pay for corresponding charges to copy the object. For information about downloading objects from Requester Pays buckets, see Downloading Objects in Requester Pays Buckets in the Amazon S3 User Guide.
NoteThis functionality is not supported for directory buckets.
Valid Values: requester
The request does not have a request body.
Response SyntaxHTTP/1.1 200
x-amz-request-charged: RequestCharged
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ListVersionsResult>
<IsTruncated>boolean</IsTruncated>
<KeyMarker>string</KeyMarker>
<VersionIdMarker>string</VersionIdMarker>
<NextKeyMarker>string</NextKeyMarker>
<NextVersionIdMarker>string</NextVersionIdMarker>
<Version>
<ChecksumAlgorithm>string</ChecksumAlgorithm>
...
<ChecksumType>string</ChecksumType>
<ETag>string</ETag>
<IsLatest>boolean</IsLatest>
<Key>string</Key>
<LastModified>timestamp</LastModified>
<Owner>
<DisplayName>string</DisplayName>
<ID>string</ID>
</Owner>
<RestoreStatus>
<IsRestoreInProgress>boolean</IsRestoreInProgress>
<RestoreExpiryDate>timestamp</RestoreExpiryDate>
</RestoreStatus>
<Size>long</Size>
<StorageClass>string</StorageClass>
<VersionId>string</VersionId>
</Version>
...
<DeleteMarker>
<IsLatest>boolean</IsLatest>
<Key>string</Key>
<LastModified>timestamp</LastModified>
<Owner>
<DisplayName>string</DisplayName>
<ID>string</ID>
</Owner>
<VersionId>string</VersionId>
</DeleteMarker>
...
<Name>string</Name>
<Prefix>string</Prefix>
<Delimiter>string</Delimiter>
<MaxKeys>integer</MaxKeys>
<CommonPrefixes>
<Prefix>string</Prefix>
</CommonPrefixes>
...
<EncodingType>string</EncodingType>
</ListVersionsResult>
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The response returns the following HTTP headers.
If present, indicates that the requester was successfully charged for the request. For more information, see Using Requester Pays buckets for storage transfers and usage in the Amazon Simple Storage Service user guide.
NoteThis functionality is not supported for directory buckets.
Valid Values: requester
The following data is returned in XML format by the service.
Root level tag for the ListVersionsResult parameters.
Required: Yes
All of the keys rolled up into a common prefix count as a single return when calculating the number of returns.
Type: Array of CommonPrefix data types
Container for an object that is a delete marker. To learn more about delete markers, see Working with delete markers.
Type: Array of DeleteMarkerEntry data types
The delimiter grouping the included keys. A delimiter is a character that you specify to group keys. All keys that contain the same string between the prefix and the first occurrence of the delimiter are grouped under a single result element in CommonPrefixes
. These groups are counted as one result against the max-keys
limitation. These keys are not returned elsewhere in the response.
Type: String
Encoding type used by Amazon S3 to encode object key names in the XML response.
If you specify the encoding-type
request parameter, Amazon S3 includes this element in the response, and returns encoded key name values in the following response elements:
KeyMarker, NextKeyMarker, Prefix, Key
, and Delimiter
.
Type: String
Valid Values: url
A flag that indicates whether Amazon S3 returned all of the results that satisfied the search criteria. If your results were truncated, you can make a follow-up paginated request by using the NextKeyMarker
and NextVersionIdMarker
response parameters as a starting place in another request to return the rest of the results.
Type: Boolean
Marks the last key returned in a truncated response.
Type: String
Specifies the maximum number of objects to return.
Type: Integer
The bucket name.
Type: String
When the number of responses exceeds the value of MaxKeys
, NextKeyMarker
specifies the first key not returned that satisfies the search criteria. Use this value for the key-marker request parameter in a subsequent request.
Type: String
When the number of responses exceeds the value of MaxKeys
, NextVersionIdMarker
specifies the first object version not returned that satisfies the search criteria. Use this value for the version-id-marker
request parameter in a subsequent request.
Type: String
Selects objects that start with the value supplied by this parameter.
Type: String
Container for version information.
Type: Array of ObjectVersion data types
Marks the last version of the key returned in a truncated response.
Type: String
The following request returns all of the versions of all of the objects in the specified bucket.
GET /?versions HTTP/1.1
Host: BucketName.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 +0000
Authorization: authorization string (see Authenticating Requests (AWS Signature Version
4))
Sample Response
This example illustrates one usage of ListObjectVersions.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ListVersionsResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01">
<Name>bucket</Name>
<Prefix>my</Prefix>
<KeyMarker/>
<VersionIdMarker/>
<MaxKeys>5</MaxKeys>
<IsTruncated>false</IsTruncated>
<Version>
<Key>my-image.jpg</Key>
<VersionId>3/L4kqtJl40Nr8X8gdRQBpUMLUo</VersionId>
<IsLatest>true</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-10-12T17:50:30.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"fba9dede5f27731c9771645a39863328"</ETag>
<Size>434234</Size>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
<DisplayName>mtd@amazon.com</DisplayName>
</Owner>
</Version>
<DeleteMarker>
<Key>my-second-image.jpg</Key>
<VersionId>03jpff543dhffds434rfdsFDN943fdsFkdmqnh892</VersionId>
<IsLatest>true</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-11-12T17:50:30.000Z</LastModified>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
<DisplayName>mtd@amazon.com</DisplayName>
</Owner>
</DeleteMarker>
<Version>
<Key>my-second-image.jpg</Key>
<VersionId>QUpfdndhfd8438MNFDN93jdnJFkdmqnh893</VersionId>
<IsLatest>false</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-10-10T17:50:30.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"9b2cf535f27731c974343645a3985328"</ETag>
<Size>166434</Size>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
<DisplayName>mtd@amazon.com</DisplayName>
</Owner>
</Version>
<DeleteMarker>
<Key>my-third-image.jpg</Key>
<VersionId>03jpff543dhffds434rfdsFDN943fdsFkdmqnh892</VersionId>
<IsLatest>true</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-10-15T17:50:30.000Z</LastModified>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
<DisplayName>mtd@amazon.com</DisplayName>
</Owner>
</DeleteMarker>
<Version>
<Key>my-third-image.jpg</Key>
<VersionId>UIORUnfndfhnw89493jJFJ</VersionId>
<IsLatest>false</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-10-11T12:50:30.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"772cf535f27731c974343645a3985328"</ETag>
<Size>64</Size>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
<DisplayName>mtd@amazon.com</DisplayName>
</Owner>
</Version>
</ListVersionsResult>
Sample Request
The following request returns objects in the order that they were stored, returning the most recently stored object first, starting with the value for key-marker
.
GET /?versions&key-marker=key2 HTTP/1.1
Host: s3.amazonaws.com
Pragma: no-cache
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:46:32 +0000
Authorization: signatureValue
Sample Response
This example illustrates one usage of ListObjectVersions.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ListVersionsResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
<Name>mtp-versioning-fresh</Name>
<Prefix/>
<KeyMarker>key2</KeyMarker>
<VersionIdMarker/>
<MaxKeys>1000</MaxKeys>
<IsTruncated>false</IsTruncated>
<Version>
<Key>key3</Key>
<VersionId>I5VhmK6CDDdQ5Pwfe1gcHZWmHDpcv7gfmfc29UBxsKU.</VersionId>
<IsLatest>true</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-12-09T00:19:04.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"396fefef536d5ce46c7537ecf978a360"</ETag>
<Size>217</Size>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
</Owner>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
</Version>
<DeleteMarker>
<Key>sourcekey</Key>
<VersionId>qDhprLU80sAlCFLu2DWgXAEDgKzWarn-HS_JU0TvYqs.</VersionId>
<IsLatest>true</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-12-10T16:38:11.000Z</LastModified>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
</Owner>
</DeleteMarker>
<Version>
<Key>sourcekey</Key>
<VersionId>wxxQ7ezLaL5JN2Sislq66Syxxo0k7uHTUpb9qiiMxNg.</VersionId>
<IsLatest>false</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-12-10T16:37:44.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"396fefef536d5ce46c7537ecf978a360"</ETag>
<Size>217</Size>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
</Owner>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
</Version>
</ListVersionsResult>
Sample Request Using the prefix Parameter
This example returns objects whose keys begin with source
.
GET /?versions&prefix=source HTTP/1.1
Host: bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 +0000
Authorization: authorization string
Sample Response
This example illustrates one usage of ListObjectVersions.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ListVersionsResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
<Name>mtp-versioning-fresh</Name>
<Prefix>source</Prefix>
<KeyMarker/>
<VersionIdMarker/>
<MaxKeys>1000</MaxKeys>
<IsTruncated>false</IsTruncated>
<DeleteMarker>
<Key>sourcekey</Key>
<VersionId>qDhprLU80sAlCFLu2DWgXAEDgKzWarn-HS_JU0TvYqs.</VersionId>
<IsLatest>true</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-12-10T16:38:11.000Z</LastModified>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
</Owner>
</DeleteMarker>
<Version>
<Key>sourcekey</Key>
<VersionId>wxxQ7ezLaL5JN2Sislq66Syxxo0k7uHTUpb9qiiMxNg.</VersionId>
<IsLatest>false</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-12-10T16:37:44.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"396fefef536d5ce46c7537ecf978a360"</ETag>
<Size>217</Size>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
</Owner>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
</Version>
</ListVersionsResult>
Sample Request: Using the key-marker and version-id-marker Parameters
The following example returns objects starting at the specified key (key-marker
) and version ID (version-id-marker
).
GET /?versions&key-marker=key3&version-id-marker=t46ZenlYTZBnj HTTP/1.1
Host: bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 +0000
Authorization: signatureValue
Sample Response
This example illustrates one usage of ListObjectVersions.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ListVersionsResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
<Name>mtp-versioning-fresh</Name>
<Prefix/>
<KeyMarker>key3</KeyMarker>
<VersionIdMarker>t46ZenlYTZBnj</VersionIdMarker>
<MaxKeys>1000</MaxKeys>
<IsTruncated>false</IsTruncated>
<DeleteMarker>
<Key>sourcekey</Key>
<VersionId>qDhprLU80sAlCFLu2DWgXAEDgKzWarn-HS_JU0TvYqs.</VersionId>
<IsLatest>true</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-12-10T16:38:11.000Z</LastModified>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
</Owner>
</DeleteMarker>
<Version>
<Key>sourcekey</Key>
<VersionId>wxxQ7ezLaL5JN2Sislq66Syxxo0k7uHTUpb9qiiMxNg.</VersionId>
<IsLatest>false</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-12-10T16:37:44.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"396fefef536d5ce46c7537ecf978a360"</ETag>
<Size>217</Size>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
</Owner>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
</Version>
</ListVersionsResult>
Sample Request: Using the key-marker, version-id-marker, and max-keys Parameters
The following request returns up to three (the value of max-keys
) objects starting with the key specified by key-marker
and the version ID specified by version-id-marker
.
GET /?versions&key-marker=key3&version-id-marker=t46Z0menlYTZBnj&max-keys=3
Host: bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 +0000
Authorization: authorization string
Sample Response
This example illustrates one usage of ListObjectVersions.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ListVersionsResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
<Name>mtp-versioning-fresh</Name>
<Prefix/>
<KeyMarker>key3</KeyMarker>
<VersionIdMarker>null</VersionIdMarker>
<NextKeyMarker>key3</NextKeyMarker>
<NextVersionIdMarker>d-d309mfjFrUmoQ0DBsVqmcMV15OI.</NextVersionIdMarker>
<MaxKeys>3</MaxKeys>
<IsTruncated>true</IsTruncated>
<Version>
<Key>key3</Key>
<VersionId>8XECiENpj8pydEDJdd-_VRrvaGKAHOaGMNW7tg6UViI.</VersionId>
<IsLatest>false</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-12-09T00:18:23.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"396fefef536d5ce46c7537ecf978a360"</ETag>
<Size>217</Size>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
</Owner>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
</Version>
<Version>
<Key>key3</Key>
<VersionId>d-d309mfjFri40QYukDozqBt3UmoQ0DBsVqmcMV15OI.</VersionId>
<IsLatest>false</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2009-12-09T00:18:08.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"396fefef536d5ce46c7537ecf978a360"</ETag>
<Size>217</Size>
<Owner>
<ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
</Owner>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
</Version>
</ListVersionsResult>
Sample Request: Using the delimiter and prefix Parameters
Assume you have the following keys in your bucket, example-bucket
.
photos/2006/January/sample.jpg
photos/2006/February/sample.jpg
photos/2006/March/sample.jpg
videos/2006/March/sample.wmv
sample.jpg
The following GET
versions request specifies the delimiter
parameter with the value /
.
GET /?versions&delimiter=/ HTTP/1.1
Host: example-bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:34:56 GMT
Authorization: authorization string
Sample Response
The list of keys from the specified bucket is shown in the following response.
The response returns the sample.jpg
key in a Version
element. However, because all the other keys contain the specified delimiter, a distinct substring, from the beginning of the key to the first occurrence of the delimiter, from each of these keys is returned in a CommonPrefixes
element. The key substrings, photos/
and videos/
, in the CommonPrefixes
element indicate that there are one or more keys with these key prefixes.
This is a useful scenario if you use key prefixes for your objects to create a logical folder-like structure. In this case, you can interpret the result as the folders photos/
and videos/
have one or more objects.
<ListVersionsResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
<Name>mvbucketwithversionon1</Name>
<Prefix></Prefix>
<KeyMarker></KeyMarker>
<VersionIdMarker></VersionIdMarker>
<MaxKeys>1000</MaxKeys>
<Delimiter>/</Delimiter>
<IsTruncated>false</IsTruncated>
<Version>
<Key>Sample.jpg</Key>
<VersionId>toxMzQlBsGyGCz1YuMWMp90cdXLzqOCH</VersionId>
<IsLatest>true</IsLatest>
<LastModified>2011-02-02T18:46:20.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"3305f2cfc46c0f04559748bb039d69ae"</ETag>
<Size>3191</Size>
<Owner>
<ID>852b113e7a2f25102679df27bb0ae12b3f85be6f290b936c4393484be31bebcc</ID>
<DisplayName>display-name</DisplayName>
</Owner>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
</Version>
<CommonPrefixes>
<Prefix>photos/</Prefix>
</CommonPrefixes>
<CommonPrefixes>
<Prefix>videos/</Prefix>
</CommonPrefixes>
</ListVersionsResult>
Example
In addition to the delimiter
parameter, you can filter results by adding a prefix
parameter as shown in the following request.
GET /?versions&prefix=photos/2006/&delimiter=/ HTTP/1.1
Host: example-bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:34:02 GMT
Authorization: authorization string
Example
In this case, the response will include only object keys that start with the specified prefix. The value returned in the CommonPrefixes
element is a substring from the beginning of the key to the first occurrence of the specified delimiter after the prefix.
If you created folders by using the Amazon S3 console, you will see an additional 0-byte object with a key of photos/2006/
. This object is created because of the way that the console supports folder structures. For more information, see Organizing objects in the Amazon S3 console using folders in the Amazon S3 User Guide.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ListVersionsResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
<Name>example-bucket</Name>
<Prefix>photos/2006/</Prefix>
<KeyMarker></KeyMarker>
<VersionIdMarker></VersionIdMarker>
<MaxKeys>1000</MaxKeys>
<Delimiter>/</Delimiter>
<IsTruncated>false</IsTruncated>
<CommonPrefixes>
<Prefix>photos/2006/February/</Prefix>
</CommonPrefixes>
<CommonPrefixes>
<Prefix>photos/2006/January/</Prefix>
</CommonPrefixes>
<CommonPrefixes>
<Prefix>photos/2006/March/</Prefix>
</CommonPrefixes>
</ListVersionsResult>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
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