Amazon AWS – Create a S3 Storage Bucket

This article will walk through that how to create S3  object storage bucket in Amazon AWS portal. S3 is multipurpose object storage with plenty of features and storage options for as we discussed in last article. Buckets are globally unique containers for everything that you store in Amazon S3. That said you have to create the bucket with unique name. Otherwise, you will get an error stating that bucket is already exists in the global name space. Buckets have configuration properties, including their geographical region, who has access to the objects in the bucket, and other metadata, such as the storage class of the objects in the bucket. Once the bucket is created, you can upload the files to the bucket but by default files will be in private mode.  You need to adjust the file permission based on your needs.

Amazon S3 – Explain

Let’s see that how to create the AWS S3 bucket and upload the file publicly accessible permission.

1.Login to Amazon AWS console.

sign-in-to-amazon-aws-console

2. Once you have singed to the AWS console , Please click on services.

AWS Management Console

3.  Click on Storage s3 to launch the storage management console.

AWS – S3 Storage Management

4. Create a own & unique storage bucket.

AWS S3 – Create new Storage Bucket

5. Enter the unique bucket name and select near by region for better performance.

Enter Bucket Name and Select Region – AWS

6. Set the S3 Bucket properties.  In the wizard, you could enable versioning , logging for the bucket. You could also use tag to track the S3 bucket usage and cost.

Set Properties for the object – S3 AWS

7. Set the s3 bucket object and object permission . You could also grant or deny access for public access.

Permission – S3 Bucket AWS

8. Review the new bucket permission and  proprieties.  Click on “Create Bucket”

Review and Create new S3 Bucket

9. Once the bucket is created , you can see the bucket is listed in S3 console. Click on the bucket

Bucket Listing – AWS S3

10. Add files to the newly created bucket.

Add Files to Bucket

11. Here i have uploaded a image file called ” VMware vSphere SRM” .

Upload Files – AWS S3

12. Manage the object permission. Here I haven’t granted  the permission to the public.

Set the Object permission – S3 AWS

13. Select the storage type. We have already discussed about the various type of storage on this AWS series. You could also have option to enable the encryption for the object.

Select the storage class & Encryption

14. Review the object permission and upload it .

Review and upload the file

15. Here you can see that file has been uploaded successfully. Click on the image to check the URL for the object.

File Uploaded Successfully – S3 AWS

We have created new S3 Bucket and uploaded the file successfully.

Let’s do small test by accessing the file.
1.  Once you have clicked the file, you can get the file URL .

File Overview and URL

2. Access the file link. Since, we have deny the public access while uploading the file, nobody can view this file.

Access the File URL

3. Let’s grant the access to the public to view the file. Select the permission tab and click on “everyone” in public access tab.

S3 AWS – Public Access

4. Select “Read Object” and save it .

World Wide Read Access to Object

5. Go back to the browser and access the object link again. You can see that file is readable for public.

Public Access – Object – AWS S3

6. You could also encrypt the object anytime by accessing the properties tab.

Object Properties – AWS S3

Hope this basic AWS s3 demonstration help you to  learn S3 yourself . In upcoming artciles, we will see more about Amazon AWS storage services .