From f8b7eaec93f0f6fc9481b46354522727706512a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Craig-Wood Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:15:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] s3: Document cross region bucket limitations - fixes #105 --- docs/content/s3.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/s3.md b/docs/content/s3.md index a3961c0a2..7d4f6a2bb 100644 --- a/docs/content/s3.md +++ b/docs/content/s3.md @@ -125,6 +125,14 @@ rclone supports multipart uploads with S3 which means that it can upload files bigger than 5GB. Note that files uploaded with multipart upload don't have an MD5SUM. +### Buckets and Regions ### + +With Amazon S3 you can list buckets (`rclone lsd`) using any region, +but you can only access the content of a bucket from the region it was +created in. If you attempt to access a bucket from the wrong region, +you will get an error, `incorrect region, the bucket is not in 'XXX' +region`. + ### Ceph ### Ceph is an object storage system which presents an Amazon S3 interface.