Question

I’m uploading photos, via PHP, to an Amazon S3 bucket. Everything is working great so far.

My question is about x-amz-meta. Would I use x-amz-meta key/value pairs to store data like the User ID of the person uploading and their account type (free, premium, etc.)? Or do I store this as regular metadata, not prefixed with x-amz-meta?

Currently sample metadata for a photo looks like:

Key: x-amz-meta-user-id      Value: 1
Key: x-amz-meta-user-type    Value: free
Key: Content-Type            Value: image/jpeg

Does that make sense? I hope so. Just checking I’m storing this metadata in the right way.

Thanks!

Jack

Answer 1

Custom metadata values must use the x-amz-meta- prefix, like your examples:

Key: x-amz-meta-user-id      Value: 1
Key: x-amz-meta-user-type    Value: free