Does Amazon offer a way to reserve AWS S3 bucket name prefixes?

Question

AWS S3 "bucket" names must be globally unique. I gather that a common convention is to use mydomain-tld- as a prefix.

Conventions are cool but standards are stronger.

Does Amazon offer a service for customers to reserve prefixes for S3 bucket names? Do they offer any conflict resolution or acceptable use challenge mechanism if someone is found "squatting" on a prefix, such as my_domain-tld- (in other words where the provenance of the prefix is blatant)?

Answer 1

The answer is No. Amazon does not offer a way to reserve a bucket or bucket prefix. Since it doesn't cost anything to create a bucket, create all possible buckets that you may need (if you exceed the 100 buckets limit, just submit a request to increase it.)

Bucket squatting is becoming a big issue and AWS is not addressing it. There have been complaints about squatters creating bucket/bucket-prefix names of popular domains. The only thing you can do is to send a mail to AWS: NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Good luck.