AWS

What's a presigned URL?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Since every newly created bucket is by default private it doesn't allows to share files with users. Even if the person who uploaded them tries to view them, it gets denied.

A presigned URL is a way to bypass that and allow sharing the files with users by including the credentials (token) as part of the URL. It can be done for limited time.