How to Create a Spaces Bucket
Create a Spaces bucket to store, organize, and serve unstructured data.
Spaces How-Tos
Generated on 30 Apr 2026
Spaces Object Storage is an S3-compatible service for storing and serving large amounts of data. The built-in Spaces CDN minimizes page load times, improves performance, and reduces bandwidth and infrastructure costs.
Getting Started
How to Manage Bucket Files
Upload, download, and delete files in buckets.
How to Organize Files with Folders
Organize files in a Space by creating folders, moving files into them, filtering folder contents, and deleting folders when you no longer need them.
How to Destroy Spaces
Permanently delete a Spaces 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
Transfer data between DigitalOcean Spaces regions using third-party tools such as Rclone.
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
Control access to Spaces buckets using access keys or DigitalOcean teams.
Advanced
How to Configure Spaces Access Logs
Enable and manage Spaces access logs to record requests made to your bucket and CDN endpoints.
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 Configure Bucket Policies Using Automation
Configure a bucket policy for a Space using the S3-compatible API, AWS CLI, or s3cmd.
How to Configure Lifecycle Rules
Configure lifecycle rules for a Space to expire objects or remove incomplete multipart uploads automatically.
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 CORS on a Space to allow web applications from another origin to access bucket resources.
How to Use DigitalOcean Spaces with AWS S3 SDKs
The Spaces API is interoperable with the AWS S3 API, meaning you can use existing S3 tools and libraries with it. These examples demonstrate how to perform common Spaces operations in JavaScript, Go, PHP, Python 3, and Ruby.