Setup Amazon S3 Bucket On AWS Cloud
Amazon Simple Storage Service
Setup Amazon S3 Bucket
Step 1 : Create S3 Bucket
Login to your AWS account and go to the “Services–>S3” then click on “Create Bucket“. It will prompt you to provide bucket name whenever you create any s3 bucket always maintain format for bucket name which helps to manage multiple buckets in standard way.
Here we are using below format for s3 bucket name :
- mysqldbbackups-AWS_ACCOUNT_NAME
Step 2 : Create IAM User
Once the bucket is created, we need one user who has complete rights to access the bucket.
To create user go to “Services–>IAM–>Users“.
After click on users give name of user here we are created user name as :
- backupuser
Step 3 : Download S3 Credentials
Once you created iam user. you will get the credentials for that user which we need to configure s3 on server.
So carefully download this credentials on your system for further use.
Check below link to learn about the s3 server configuration :
Step 4 : Create a User Policy
Create User policy and assign it to backup user. Go to : “Services -> IAM -> Policies -> Get Started.”
click on “Create your own policy” then add below policy. after adding policy first click on “validate policy” then click on “create policy“.
After this add the below policy as it is in box.
Policy Name : S3CodeMediaDBBackupsFullAccess
Description : Full Access of mysqldbbackups buckets.
Policy Document :
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "s3:*",
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:s3:::mysqldbbackups-AWS_ACCOUNT_NAME",
"arn:aws:s3:::mysqldbbackups-AWS_ACCOUNT_NAME/*"
]
}
]
}
Step 5 : Attache Policy
Go back to the “Services->IAM->Users” and click on backupuser and attached the above policy for user.
- Permissions->Attach Policy->S3CodeMediaDBBackupsFullAccess
That’s it.
Our s3 bucket is ready to store backup files. This article is part of mysqldb backup files transfer from server to s3 bucket.
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