Best approach to download Sentinel-2 L1C data in SAFE format

Sentinel-2 L1C data on AWS S3 seems to be stored using different conventions. Some products can be found under a ‘tiles’ key while others are stored under a ‘products’ key. Also, products with processing baseline 05.00 have ‘.SAFE’ in their object key, while products of other processing baselines don’t.

E.g: “products/2021/12/31/S2A_MSIL1C_20211231T005031_N0301_R045_T57VXE_20211231T023328/” vs “products/2021/12/31/S2A_MSIL1C_20211231T005031_N0500_R045_T55TGL_20221223T184029.SAFE/”.

This makes reconstructing the original SAFE format - as required by some processing libraries - hard and error prone. It also looks like the sentinelhub-py package is no longer supporting reconstruction of data stored on S3 into a SAFE format: https://github.com/sentinel-hub/sentinelhub-py/blob/master/CHANGELOG.MD#version-381---2023-01-18.

The referenced notebook sample link is dead, but the one with git tag 3.8.1 works: https://github.com/sentinel-hub/sentinelhub-py/blob/v3.8.1/examples/aws_request.ipynb.

However, the code provided in the notebook still uses the deprecated AWS module to download the data.

So:

1/ What would be the best approach to download Sentinel-2 L1C data in SAFE format when processing on AWS?

2/ Will all S2 L1C data become available in processing baseline 05.00? What is the timeline?

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Perhaps worth to check:

How to download L1C images of ".SAFE" format Sentinel@AWS

Hello,
Now, I’m trying to download L1C images of “.SAFE format” with sentinelhub-py 2.4.1.
I put “safe_format” option to “True”, but the downloaded file is same as the case of non options, and the directory constitution is really different from the before. The new directory constitution is similar with the constitution of XXX.SAFE/GRANULE.
What should I do for getting the “.SAFE” format as before?

Should I put all of files with “metadata” option?
Although I put some files with the list of …

Yes, I also noticed that topic, but the code there also uses the deprecated module as it dates from 2018, before deprecating the AWS download support of the sentinelhub-py package.

Gently checking again if anyone knows what the best approach would be for this now that AWS download support is deprecated in the sentinelhub-py package?