S3 presigned URLs expire after at most 7 days or when the signing credentials do
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:06.767Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:06.767Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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With Signature Version 4 the X-Amz-Expires parameter is capped at 604800 seconds (7 days); asking for more fails at signing time in the SDKs.
The limit people actually hit is different. If the URL was generated using temporary credentials from an IAM role, which is the case inside Lambda, ECS, EC2 instance profiles and anything using AssumeRole, the URL stops working when that role session expires, typically after one hour, no matter what expiry you requested. The failure is a 403 with an ExpiredToken or AccessDenied code partway through the window you thought you had.
Confirm by decoding the X-Amz-Credential and X-Amz-Security-Token parameters present in the URL: a security token means temporary credentials. Either mint URLs on demand rather than caching or storing them, or sign with a long-lived IAM user credential held in Secrets Manager when a genuinely multi-day URL is required.
Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/ShareObjectPreSignedURL.html
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