At first glance it doesn't look like you are doing anything wrong but you don't show all your code. The following worked for me when I was first checking out S3 and Node:
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
if (typeof process.env.API_KEY == 'undefined') {
var config = require('./config.json');
for (var key in config) {
if (config.hasOwnProperty(key)) process.env[key] = config[key];
}
}
var s3 = new AWS.S3({accessKeyId: process.env.AWS_ID, secretAccessKey:process.env.AWS_KEY});
var objectPath = process.env.AWS_S3_FOLDER +'/test.xml';
s3.putObject({
Bucket: process.env.AWS_S3_BUCKET,
Key: objectPath,
Body: "<rss><data>hello Fred</data></rss>",
ACL:'public-read'
}, function(err, data){
if (err) console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
else {
console.log(data); // successful response
s3.getObject({
Bucket: process.env.AWS_S3_BUCKET,
Key: objectPath
}, function(err, data){
console.log(data.Body.toString());
});
}
});