Page updated Nov 12, 2023

Use AWS SDK

For advanced use cases where Amplify does not provide the functionality, you can retrieve the escape hatch to access the S3Client instance:

Note: While the Amplify Library for Kotlin is production ready, please note that the underlying AWS SDK for Kotlin is currently in Developer Preview, and is not yet intended for production workloads. Here is additional reading material on the stability of the SDK

Learn more about consuming Kotlin clients from Java using either a blocking interface or an equivalent async interface based on futures here.

AWSS3StoragePlugin plugin = (AWSS3StoragePlugin) Amplify.Storage.getPlugin("awsS3StoragePlugin"); S3Client client = plugin.getEscapeHatch();
1AWSS3StoragePlugin plugin = (AWSS3StoragePlugin) Amplify.Storage.getPlugin("awsS3StoragePlugin");
2S3Client client = plugin.getEscapeHatch();