How to Create a Spaces Bucket
Create a Spaces bucket to store and serve large amounts of data. Create multiple Spaces buckets at no additional cost to use as logical units for segmenting content.
Spaces How-Tos
Generated on 5 May 2025
Spaces Object Storage is an S3-compatible object storage service. Spaces buckets let you store and serve large amounts of data, and the built-in CDN minimizes page load times and improves performance.
Getting Started
How to Upload, Download, and Delete Files
Upload files from your local computer to make them available in a Spaces bucket, download files from a bucket to your local computer, and delete files from a bucket to stop serving them.
How to Organize Files with Folders
Use folders to organize files in a Space and make them conceptually easier to manage.
How to Destroy Spaces
Destroy a Spaces bucket to permanently and irrecoverably destroy the bucket and all of the files in it. Your Spaces subscription ends automatically when you destroy your last bucket.
How to Migrate Spaces with Flexify.IO
Migrate buckets to and from DigitalOcean Spaces with Flexify.IO
Transfer DigitalOcean Spaces Buckets Between Regions Using Rclone
Migrate data between regions by using Rclone to transfer data between two Spaces buckets.
Access Control
How to Share Links to Files with File Permissions and Presigned URLs
Choose how you share files by setting the file permissions to public (visible to the internet) or private (visible to owners of the bucket). Use presigned URLs to give time-bound access to private files.
How to Set File Listing Permissions for Spaces
Set the permissions of a Spaces bucket’s file listing, which is an XML list of the bucket’s contents, to public (visible to anyone on the internet) or private (visible only to users with access keys to the bucket).
How to Manage Access to Spaces
Allow people or programs to co-manage Spaces with the owner of the Spaces bucket using access keys or DigitalOcean Teams.
Content Delivery Network
How to Enable the Spaces CDN
Enable the built-in Spaces content delivery network (CDN) to deliver content faster and more reliably and add an extra layer of redundancy for websites.
How to Manage the Spaces CDN Cache
Set the Spaces CDN’s edge cache TTL or purge the cache to manage when edge servers refresh their content.
How to Customize the Spaces CDN Endpoint with a Subdomain
Use a secure subdomain you own as an alternative endpoint for the Spaces CDN.
Advanced
How to Configure Bucket Policies
Configure bucket policies to control access and permissions for Spaces buckets using the Spaces API, AWS CLI, or s3cmd. Use bucket policies to define who can access your bucket and what actions they can perform.
How to Configure Lifecycle Rules
Configure lifecycle rules to automatically manage object storage in your Space using the Spaces API, AWS CLI, or s3cmd. Use lifecycle rules to delete objects after a set period or remove incomplete multipart uploads.
How to Enable Spaces Versioning
You can preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your buckets using S3 Versioning.
How to Set File Metadata
Set file metadata like Content-Type, Cache-Control, Content-Encoding, Content-Disposition, and custom key-value headers.
How to Configure CORS on DigitalOcean Spaces
Configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) to let client web applications loaded in one domain interact with resources in a Spaces bucket.
How to Use DigitalOcean Spaces with AWS S3 SDKs
The Spaces API is inter-operable with the AWS S3 API, meaning you can use existing S3 tools and libraries with it. These examples demonstrate how to perform a number of common Spaces operations in JavaScript, Go, PHP, Python 3, and Ruby.