How to set up an amazon S3 bucket

Get an Amazon S3 Account

The first step to using your own S3 bucket is to get an Amazon S3 account. In order to do that, go to their service page and click the "Sign Up For Amazon S3" button.

Find your credentials

Finding your credentials for the new account is easy:

• Go to the service page
• Hover over "My Account", click on "Security Credentials"
• Scroll to the "Access credentials" section, your * is listed under "Access Key ID"
• Click the "Show" link under "Secret Access Key" to reveal your secret

Create a bucket

In order to create an S3 bucket, you will need a client that supports the S3 API. We recommend using one of the following free clients:

• Mac: Cyberduck
• Windows: CloudBerry Explorer
• Linux: Tim Kay's AWS Tool

Make sure to remember the name of your bucket after you create it.

Create a template

Please read our template docs to learn more about templates and security.

A simple template for testing the connection to your S3 account may look like this:

{ "steps":
  { "store":
    { "robot": "/s3/store"
    , "bucket": "your-bucket-name"
    , "key": "your-s3-key"
    , "secret": "your-s3-secret"
    }
  }
}

Now upload an image in the template interface to see if everything worked.

The S3 Store page has more information on things such as customizing your file names.

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