Amazon S3 Metadata expands to 22 additional AWS Regions

Posted on: Nov 26, 2025

Amazon S3 Metadata is now available in twenty-two additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), South America (Sao Paulo), and US West (N. California).

Amazon S3 Metadata is the easiest and fastest way to help you instantly discover and understand your S3 data with automated, easily-queried metadata that updates in near real-time. This helps you to curate, identify, and use your S3 data for business analytics, real-time inference applications, and more. S3 Metadata supports object metadata, which includes system-defined details like size and source of the object, and custom metadata, which allows you to use tags to annotate your objects with information like product SKU, transaction ID, or content rating. S3 Metadata automatically populates metadata for both new and existing objects, providing you with a comprehensive, queryable view of your data.

With this expansion, S3 Metadata is now generally available in twenty-eight AWS Regions. For pricing details, visit the S3 pricing page. To learn more, visit the product page, documentation, and AWS Storage Blog.