How to Create an AWS S3 Bucket#

This guide will show you how to create an S3 bucket on AWS. You can also directly refer to the Create your first S3 bucket - Amazon Simple Storage Service

Creating a Bucket via the Console#

• Log in to the AWS Management Console and go to the S3 service.
• Choose the Region. You need to select the Region where your business is located, and it is also the Region where you will deploy Montplex Cache.
• In the left navigation pane, choose Buckets and then choose Create bucket.

• Under Bucket type, choose General purpose.
• Enter a name for your bucket.

The bucket name must be unique within a partition. A partition is a grouping of Regions. AWS currently has three partitions: aws (Standard Regions), aws-cn (China Regions), and aws-us-gov (AWS GovCloud (US) Regions).

Bucket name must be unique within the global namespace and follow the bucket naming rules. See rules for bucket naming

Note: The bucket name cannot include uppercase letters.

• Keep the other options at their default settings.
• Create the bucket.

Creating a Bucket via the Command Line#

First, you need an EC2 instance configured with permissions to access your AWS resources, particularly the permission to create an S3 bucket.

• List existing S3 buckets in the region:

1aws s3 ls --region <region>

• Create a bucket:

1aws s3 mb s3://<bucket-name> --region us-east-1
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4aws s3 mb s3://montcache-s3-us-east-1 --region us-east-1

Note: The must also be unique across the entire AWS region. Recommended format: -s3-, such as: montcache-s3-us-east-1.