How to change http response code on an object in Amazon S3

Question

I have a webpage hosted on Amazon S3 but I don't want the http response code to be 200. The page is a maintenance page that I'll redirect traffic to when I take our main website down for maintenance.

I want the Amazon S3 page to include a response header of:

HTTP/1.1 503 Service unavailable

Amazon give the ability to add some metadata to the S3 Object but there is nothing for the http status code.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

Not sure which browsers, or crawlers, that supports this. But you could potentially use the meta http-equiv status meta tag to accomplish this.

<meta http-equiv="status" content="503 Service Unavailable" />

The specification says to treat it in the same way as if 503 had been sent as the status code.

Answer 2

You cannot customize the status code for S3 responses.

You can use API Gateway as a proxy to your S3 website error page where you can customize status codes returned.