Amazon Web Services S3 Setup

Regions

The following documentation shows the available region names for AWS:

• Amazon Web Services S3 Regions

Credentials

In order to generate access keys for your Amazon Web Services S3 instance, go through the following steps:

• Open the IAM console.
• From the navigation menu, click on Users.
• Select your IAM user name.
• Scroll to the Access keys section and click on Create access key.
  • In Step 1, select Third-party service. Confirm and select Next.
  • In Step 2, optionally set a description for the access key.
  • In Step 3, click on Download .csv file. Your keys should look something like this:
    • Access key: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
    • Secret access key: MihgBbJs5yQrKsKNSj/TEqa3q2ZOtaEXAMPLEKEY
• Once you have the access key and secret access key, store them in a secure location.

Buckets

The following documentation shows how to generate buckets in Amazon's S3 service:

• Amazon Web Services S3 - Create a Bucket