Spaces How-Tos
Spaces is an S3-compatible object storage service that lets you store and serve large amounts of data. Each Space is a bucket for you to store and serve files. The free, built-in Spaces CDN minimizes page load times, improves performance, and reduces bandwidth and infrastructure costs.
Getting Started
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.
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.
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.
Access Control
Change the permissions of files to make them visible to anyone on the internet or only to owners of the Space). Create a quick share link to give time-bound access to a private file.
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).
Allow people or programs to co-manage Spaces with the owner of the Spaces bucket using access keys or DigitalOcean Teams.
Content Delivery Network
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.
Set the Spaces CDN’s edge cache TTL or purge the cache to manage when edge servers refresh their content.
Advanced
Set file metadata like Content-Type, Cache-Control, Content-Encoding, Content-Disposition, and custom key-value headers.