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Setup S3 on AWS

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What is AWS S3 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of al

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.

In order to use the S3 Connector with AWS you need to have an AWS account.

If you don’t have an AWS account yet, go to https://aws.amazon.com/ and create one:

When you are done setting up your account, log into the AWS Console:

Once you have your AWS account ready you need to setup an user and access keys for it.
Open https://console.aws.amazon.com/ and you will see the AWS console with all the services available. In the search bar type iam and select the IAM service which appears in the search results:

Add a username and select the Access type for your user. We need to select the Programmatic access option here, as it provides the access keys we need for our user. Click Next, when you are done:

Filter the policies by typing s3 and select AmazonS3FullAccess, click Next:

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You can see your user has been created. Make sure to copy the Access key ID and the Secret access key for your user, as they will be needed for the S3 Connector:

Now as you created your user, let’s create an S3 Bucket. Go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/ and type s3 in the search. Select S3 in the results:

Add a name for your bucket and select a region for it. Click Next:

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We turn this option off for our demo and click Next:

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Setup the public access option as per your needs, following the AWS documentation.

Section titled “Setup the public access option as per your needs, following the AWS documentation.”

Click the Create bucket button:

And you can see your bucket has been created:

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Now you are ready to use the S3 Connector!

Section titled “Now you are ready to use the S3 Connector!”