Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service. The service is designed for online backup and archiving of data and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon S3 was designed with a minimal feature set and created to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
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What is AWS S3 bucket?
A bucket is a container for objects stored in Amazon S3. we can store any number of objects in a bucket and can have up to 100 buckets in our account.
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- Organize the Amazon S3 namespace at the highest level.
- Identify the account responsible for storage and data transfer charges.
- Provide access control options, such as bucket policies, access control lists (ACLs), and S3 Access Points, that you can use to manage access to your Amazon S3 resources.
- Serve as the unit of aggregation for usage reporting.
How to create AWS S3 Bucket with Cli
- Create a test bucket: aws s3 mb s3://chaos-blog-test-bucket
- List the objects in the bucket: aws s3 ls s3://chaos-blog-test-bucket
How to create AWS S3 policy with cli
- Create a role with no permissions:
aws iam create-role –role-name WriteToBucket_Role –assume-role-policy-document ‘{“Version”:”2012-10-17″,”Statement”:[{“Effect”:”Allow”,”Principal”:{“Service”:”ec2.amazonaws.com”},”Action”:”sts:AssumeRole”}]}’
- Create a policy that can write into that bucket, and attach it to the role we just created:
aws iam put-role-policy –role-name WriteToBucket_Role –policy-name WriteToBucket_policy –policy-document ‘{“Version”:”2012-10-17″,”Statement”:[{“Effect”:”Allow”,”Action”:”s3:*”,”Resource”:[“arn:aws:s3:::chaos-blog-test-bucket”,”arn:aws:s3:::chaos-blog-test-bucket/*”]}]}’
How to add AWS S3 access to an Instance
- Create an instance profile for us to attach to an instance:
aws iam create-instance-profile –instance-profile-name WriteToBucket_profile
- Attach the role to the profile:
aws iam add-role-to-instance-profile –instance-profile-name WriteToBucket_profile –role-name WriteToBucket_Role
- Attach profile to our running instance. Here we will have to know the instance id of the instance we are adding the IAM profile to:
aws ec2 associate-iam-instance-profile –instance-id YOUR_INSTANCE_ID –iam-instance-profile Name=”WriteToBucket_profile”
- Go check out our AWS console, and we can see the IAM policy is now associated.
How to use AWS S3 on AWS instance?
- ssh to our instance
- Create an empty file: touch x
- Copy a new empty file to the bucket: aws cp x s3://chaos-blog-test-bucket
- We should now be able to see the file in the bucket. aws s3 ls s3://chaos-blog-test-bucket
- If the copy fails, double check the IAM permissions, and that the instance has the IAM role attacked in the aws console.