Creating An AWS S3 Bucket For Beginners
This is a great accomplishment of many more I’ve made thus far. My experience learning AWS was pretty interesting and exciting all at the same time. Once we start we will be creating an AWS S3 bucket. I will be showing you a step by step crash course on AWS. First what is an Amazon S3 Bucket? It is a public cloud storage resource available in AWS (Amazon Web Service) S3 (Simple Storage Service) provides the ability to store, retrieve, access, and back up any amount of data at any given time or place. S3 is object-based storage, meaning that
All data is stored as objects.
This is not a security best practice. I am using the root account because there are no existing admin accounts, and I know that using the root account on a daily basis is against AWS Security Best Practice.
You can find more information at the following link:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuid/best-practices.html
Log into your AWS account as root user.
Click Services then scroll down to IAM click IAM then click users
Click “add” in the top right to create a user called “test-user”
After that click both for your AWS credentials type. Once you do this, it should show a bubble were you can type in a password and a password you'd remember. Create a custom password for your user then click next to permissions.
Once you’re done with the task you should be on permissions. We will be adding an “S3 full access” policy to your “test-user”
Create an S3 bucket with a unique name. For example”test-user-bucket-123456
After you completed this step go ahead and click next. Should see success.
Quick tip: Make sure to go to your Security Credentials to grab the login link for your user.
Log into your AWS account as “test-user”
You should see your “test-user” and there you have it. It should be a success.
How can you get started with Amazon EC2?
“To sign up for Amazon EC2, click the “Sign up for This Web Service” button on the Amazon EC2 detail page. You must have an Amazon Web Services account to access this service; if you do not already have one, you will be prompted to create one when you begin the Amazon EC2 sign-up process. After signing up, please refer to the Amazon EC2 documentation, which includes our Getting Started Guide.”
