Working with Requester Pays Buckets

Requester Pays Buckets Overview

Using Requester Pays feature you can configure your bucket in a way that all data transfer costs are paid by users who download the data. In other words, you configure buckets to be Requester Pays when you want to share data but not want to pay fees associated with others accessing the data.

With CS Browser Freeware you can easily configure your bucket to be Requester Pays or use Requester Pays bucket shared by other Amazon S3 users.

To enable/disable Requester Pays status for a Buckets

1. Select the bucket you want to enable/disable Requester Pays for.

2. Click Buckets -> Properties:

   

   The Properties tab will open:

   

3. Click the Requester Pays link to enable/disable Requester Pays status.

   You may now share the bucket with other AWS users.

To connect to Requester Pays Bucket

1. Please follow these instructions to add the bucket shared by another AWS user.

2. When you navigate to Requester Pays bucket, the following dialog appears:

   

3. Click Yes to access Requester Pays bucket.

   Note: YOU WILL PAY for the traffic and all requests you sent to this bucket.