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Object Storage Service:List buckets (C++ SDK)

Last Updated:Nov 29, 2025

Object Storage Service (OSS) buckets are listed in alphabetical order. This topic describes how to list all buckets that belong to the current Alibaba Cloud account.

Usage notes

  • In this topic, the public endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. If you want to access OSS from other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region as OSS, use an internal endpoint. For more information about OSS regions and endpoints, see Regions and endpoints.

  • In this topic, an OSSClient instance is created by using an OSS endpoint. If you want to create an OSSClient by using custom domain names or Security Token Service (STS), see Create an OSSClient instance.

  • To list buckets, you must have the oss:ListBuckets permission. For more information, see Attach a custom policy to a RAM user.

Sample code

The following code provides an example on how to list all buckets that belong to the current Alibaba Cloud account:

#include <alibabacloud/oss/OssClient.h>
using namespace AlibabaCloud::OSS;

int main(void)
{
    /* Initialize the OSS account information. */
    
    /* Set yourEndpoint to the endpoint of the region where the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com. */
    std::string Endpoint = "yourEndpoint";
    
    /* Set yourRegion to the region where the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the region to cn-hangzhou. */
    std::string Region = "yourRegion";

    /* Initialize network resources. */
    InitializeSdk();

    ClientConfiguration conf;
    conf.signatureVersion = SignatureVersionType::V4;
    /* Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before you run this sample code, make sure that the OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables are set. */
    auto credentialsProvider = std::make_shared<EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider>();
    OssClient client(Endpoint, credentialsProvider, conf);
    client.SetRegion(Region);

    /* List all buckets under the current account. */
    ListBucketsRequest request;
    auto outcome = client.ListBuckets(request);

    if (outcome.isSuccess()) {
        /* Print bucket information. */
        std::cout <<" success, and bucket count is" << outcome.result().Buckets().size() << std::endl;
        std::cout << "Bucket name is" << std::endl;
        for (auto result : outcome.result().Buckets())
        {
            std::cout << result.Name() << std::endl;
        }
    }
    else {
        /* Handle the exception. */
        std::cout << "ListBuckets fail" <<
        ",code:" << outcome.error().Code() <<
        ",message:" << outcome.error().Message() <<
        ",requestId:" << outcome.error().RequestId() << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }

    /* Release network resources. */
    ShutdownSdk();
    return 0;
}

References

  • For the complete sample code for listing buckets, see GitHub.

  • For more information about the API operation that you can call to list buckets, see ListBuckets (GetService).