The aws-s3-reverse-proxy will reverse-proxy all incoming S3 API calls to the public AWS S3 backend by rewriting the Host header and re-signing the original request.

Possible use cases and scenarios include:

• Auditing & logging of S3 access from your local network or specific clients
• Redirecting S3 buckets to a different AWS Region
• AWS DirectConnect, to run a reverse-proxy from your local network

AWS uses its Signature v4 to protect API access. All requests sent to AWS S3 have to have a valid signature which includes your AWS security credentials (commonly known as AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY). This signature is encoded in the HTTP Authorization header and also contains a SHA256 of various other HTTP headers, including the Host header, which directly corresponds to the endpoint_url. Since we want to reverse-proxy requests, we need to rewrite this header, and therefore need to re-sign the request.

In order to re-sign any Signature v4 request, we need the full set of AWS security credentials, the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID is already part of the Authorization, but the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY needs to be provided as configuration option to the reverse proxy.

The aws-s3-reverse-proxy is NOT capable of reverse-proxying arbitrary AWS S3 requests from unknown (or unaware) users & clients. The Signature v4 system put in place by AWS requires the full knowledge of the AWS security credentials to change specific HTTP headers. This means every deployment of aws-s3-reverse-proxy needs to be aware of the expected AWS security credentials to re-sign each request.

Get the latest Docker image from from DockerHub or download the source release from GitHub.

• can reverse-proxy to a configurable AWS Region
• limits access based on source IP and subnet of the client
• limits access based on endpoint URL
• full instrumentation with Prometheus metrics
• HTTP and HTTPS support for clients
• uses secure HTTPS for upstream connections by default
• run as single binary or Docker container
• configuration via CLI, or using the same options in a config file

The proxy uses the official AWS SDK for Go for most of the heavy lifting. More information can be found in the developer guide

The available options and help information can be displayed with:

docker run --rm aws-s3-reverse-proxy --help

All build dependencies and steps are contained in the Dockerfile:

docker build -t aws-s3-reverse-proxy .

$ docker run --rm -ti \
  -p 8099 \
  aws-s3-reverse-proxy
  --allowed-source-subnet=192.168.1.0/24
  --allowed-endpoint=my.host.example.com:8099
  --aws-credentials=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

You can also use env variables

$ docker run --rm -ti \
  -p 8099 \
  -e ALLOWED_SOURCE_SUBNET=192.168.1.0/24 \
  -e ALLOWED_ENDPOINT=my.host.example.com:8099 \
  -e AWS_CREDENTIALS=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
  aws-s3-reverse-proxy

Or you can use a config file:

# config.cfg file for aws-3-reverse-proxy
--allowed-source-subnet=192.168.1.0/24
--allowed-endpoint=my.host.example.com:8099
--aws-credentials=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

And then run it like:

$ docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd)/config.cfg:/config.cfg -p 8099 aws-s3-reverse-proxy @config.cfg -v

Or just run the binary the old-fashioned way:

./aws-s3-reverse-proxy --help

Client with the official awscli:

$ aws s3 --endpoint-url http://my.host.example.com:8099 ls s3://my-bucket/

aws-s3-reverse-proxy welcomes contributions from anyone! Unlike many other projects we are happy to accept cosmetic contributions and small contributions, in addition to large feature requests and changes.

aws-s3-reverse-proxy is made available under the MIT License. For more details, see the LICENSE file in the repository.

aws-s3-reverse-proxy was created by Thomas Kriechbaumer, and is maintained by the community.