How to Generate an Amazon S3 Bucket and Obtain AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for Accessing It

In this blog article, I will help you How to create an S3 Bucket and AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for accessing it. I will illustrate the easiest process to get an Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for your AWS account that helps you to get access to your AWS services. If you are referring to the informative documentation provided on AWS then these are the direct and precise steps to follow for creating or setting up the S3 bucket.

The very first requirement to start with the process is an AWS account. In case you don’t have an AWS account then you can go for creating a new AWS account from here. There is a very small fee charged by Amazon, you have to pay 1$ for the purpose of verifying your AWS account. 

Let’s firstly create an S3 bucket.

Steps to create an S3 Bucket:

Step 1: Right after you create your account you need to login directly into your AWS Management Console from here and choose S3 given below the Storage option from the AWS services provided.

Step 2: Now we will create a bucket in the S3. 

Step 3: Name the bucket which is available as per your requirement. Basically, the names of the S3 are used globally and are not repeated. So, you cannot name that is already taken by anyone else. And click on create a bucket.

Step 4: After this, you will get a message of creating an S3 bucket successfully and below the Amazon S3 section you will find your bucket.

Now let’s generate AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for your bucket.

Steps to generate AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key:

Step 1: Navigate to your account section and select the My Security Credentials option.

Step 2: Now explore the Access keys (access key ID and secret access key) option and tap on Create New Access Key option.

Step 3: Explore the Show Access key option and you will be able to get the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. You can also download the access key file for future purposes.

Now we will utilize this Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access the S3 bucket by connecting it to your AWS.

That’s It

Hopefully, all are able to implement the above-given steps to create an S3 Bucket and AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for accessing it. In case you have difficulties in the above steps then you can feel free to comment down.

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