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AWS AmazonS3 documentation change

Service: AmazonS3 · 2026-06-22 · Documentation low

File: AmazonS3/latest/userguide/metadata-tables-troubleshooting.md

Summary

Added documentation for annotation tables feature and updated migration instructions

Security assessment

Changes introduce new 'annotation tables' functionality and update references to include this feature. No security vulnerabilities, fixes, or security features are mentioned. Updates are related to feature availability and migration procedures for configurations created before July 15, 2025.

Diff

diff --git a/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/metadata-tables-troubleshooting.md b/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/metadata-tables-troubleshooting.md
index 7c264450c..4b7fcbb8f 100644
--- a//AmazonS3/latest/userguide/metadata-tables-troubleshooting.md
+++ b//AmazonS3/latest/userguide/metadata-tables-troubleshooting.md
@@ -7 +7 @@
-I'm unable to delete my AWS managed table bucket and metadata tablesI'm unable to set or change the encryption settings for my AWS managed metadata tableWhen I try to re-create my metadata table configuration, I get an errorI can't enable an inventory table on my configurationI can't enable journal table record expiration on my configurationI can't query my metadata tablesI'm receiving 405 errors when I try to use certain S3 Metadata AWS CLI commands and API operations
+I'm unable to delete my AWS managed table bucket and metadata tablesI'm unable to set or change the encryption settings for my AWS managed metadata tableWhen I try to re-create my metadata table configuration, I get an errorI can't enable an inventory table on my configurationI can't enable an annotation table on my configurationI can't enable journal table record expiration on my configurationI can't query my metadata tablesI'm receiving 405 errors when I try to use certain S3 Metadata AWS CLI commands and API operations
@@ -31 +31 @@ Deleting a metadata table configuration deletes only the configuration. The AWS
-If you delete your metadata table configuration and want to re-create a configuration for the same general purpose bucket, you must first manually delete the old journal and inventory tables from your AWS managed table bucket. Otherwise, creating the new metadata table configuration fails because those tables already exist. 
+If you delete your metadata table configuration and want to re-create a configuration for the same general purpose bucket, you must first manually delete the old journal, inventory, and annotation tables from your AWS managed table bucket. Otherwise, creating the new metadata table configuration fails because those tables already exist. 
@@ -37 +37,5 @@ To delete your metadata tables, see [Deleting metadata tables](./metadata-tables
-If you created your S3 Metadata configuration before July 15, 2025, you can't enable an inventory table on that configuration. We recommend that you delete and re-create your configuration so that you can create an inventory table and expire journal table records. For more information, see [Enabling inventory tables on metadata configurations created before July 15, 2025](./metadata-tables-create-configuration.html#metadata-tables-migration).
+If you created your S3 Metadata configuration before July 15, 2025, you can't enable an inventory table on that configuration. We recommend that you delete and re-create your configuration so that you can create an inventory table and expire journal table records. For more information, see [Enabling inventory and annotation tables on metadata configurations created before July 15, 2025](./metadata-tables-create-configuration.html#metadata-tables-migration).
+
+## I can't enable an annotation table on my configuration
+
+If you created your S3 Metadata configuration before July 15, 2025, you can't enable an annotation table on that configuration. We recommend that you delete and re-create your configuration so that you can create an annotation table, create an inventory table, and expire journal table records. For more information, see [Enabling inventory and annotation tables on metadata configurations created before July 15, 2025](./metadata-tables-create-configuration.html#metadata-tables-migration).
@@ -41 +45 @@ If you created your S3 Metadata configuration before July 15, 2025, you can't en
-If you created your S3 Metadata configuration before July 15, 2025, you can't enable journal table record expiration on that configuration. We recommend that you delete and re-create your configuration so that you can expire journal table records and create an inventory table. For more information, see [Enabling inventory tables on metadata configurations created before July 15, 2025](./metadata-tables-create-configuration.html#metadata-tables-migration).
+If you created your S3 Metadata configuration before July 15, 2025, you can't enable journal table record expiration on that configuration. We recommend that you delete and re-create your configuration so that you can expire journal table records and create an inventory table. For more information, see [Enabling inventory and annotation tables on metadata configurations created before July 15, 2025](./metadata-tables-create-configuration.html#metadata-tables-migration).
@@ -68 +72 @@ You can use the V2 `GetBucketMetadataConfiguration` API operation or the `get-bu
-We recommend updating your processes to use the new V2 API operations (`CreateBucketMetadataConfiguration`, `GetBucketMetadataConfiguraion`, and `DeleteBucketMetadataConfiguration`) instead of the V1 API operations. For more information about migrating from V1 of S3 Metadata to V2, see [Enabling inventory tables on metadata configurations created before July 15, 2025](./metadata-tables-create-configuration.html#metadata-tables-migration).
+We recommend updating your processes to use the new V2 API operations (`CreateBucketMetadataConfiguration`, `GetBucketMetadataConfiguraion`, and `DeleteBucketMetadataConfiguration`) instead of the V1 API operations. For more information about migrating from V1 of S3 Metadata to V2, see [Enabling inventory and annotation tables on metadata configurations created before July 15, 2025](./metadata-tables-create-configuration.html#metadata-tables-migration).