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I believe the `body` property is only populated when the `content-type` is `test/*` or `application/json`.

See note at <https://pulumi.io/reference/pkg/nodejs/pulumi/aws/s3/#getBucketObject>.

so there's no way to get the file other then text and json?

I've had a few cases now where I was tempted to just use the aws sdk for stuff that I need to consume (vs create)

no idea how that would play with plan/apply tho

Hmm, is there an example of how to do that?

By default, it would run during every plan and apply - which in fact `getBucketObject` will as well.

Basically we just have a bunch of configuration files in yaml format stored in S3, and we need to get these values in pulumi, as an input for other objects.

The most significant "tricky" think about using the AWS SDK directly is credentials - it will not automatically pick up the same credentials as you used to configure pulumi-aws - so you may need to do some additional work to make sure the SDK is configured with the same credentials.

<@UE7AVKHGB> Yes - that sounds like a reasonable use case for using the AWS SDK.

```
import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws";
import * as awssdk from "aws-sdk";

const bucket = new aws.s3.Bucket("my-bucket");
const obj = new aws.s3.BucketObject("o", {
    bucket: bucket,
    key: "foo.json",
    content: '{"foo": "bar"}',
    contentType: "application/json",
})

export const contents = pulumi.all([bucket.id, obj.key]).apply(async ([bucketId, key]) =&gt; {
    // const o = await aws.s3.getBucketObject({
    //     bucket: bucketId,
    //     key: key,
    // });
    const s3 = new awssdk.S3();
    const o = await s3.getObject({
        Bucket:  bucketId, 
        Key: key,
    }).promise();
    console.log(JSON.stringify(o));
    return (o.Body as Buffer).toString();
});
```