[JCLOUDS-679] Use HEAD /name to check bucket existence with S3

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.1, 2.0.0
• Component/s: jclouds-blobstore
• Assignee: Andrew Gaul
• Reporter: Andrew Gaul
• Created: 20/Aug/14 19:30
• Updated: 20/Aug/14 19:52
• Resolved: 20/Aug/14 19:52

Description

This method costs 0.4 cents per 10,000 requests instead of 0.5 cents
per 1,000 requests:

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

API reference:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTBucketHEAD.html