I have a downloadable something.pkg file hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket (https://myassets.s3.amazonaws.com/something.pkg)
many people have this link but I don't want people anymore to be able to download it anymore but to be redirected to my_website.com/file_landing_page/
trying to edit the metadata of the file (as seen in the photo), setting the key x-amz-website-redirect-location to my new location does not do anything.
how can I redirect the object from the s3 console please?
In order to achieve redirection from an S3 object, the bucket has to be configured for static website hosting. You can check here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/how-to-page-redirect.html
After that setting x-amz-website-redirect-location property to the object metadata is going to work, but only from the s3 website endpoint (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/WebsiteEndpoints.html):
s3-website dash (-) Region ‐ http://bucket-name.s3-website-Region.amazonaws.com
s3-website dot (.) Region ‐ http://bucket-name.s3-website.Region.amazonaws.com
Unfortunately in your case even if you configure the bucket to be static your users are still using the https://myassets.s3.amazonaws.com/something.pkg which is not going to redirect.
