How to create a public S3 Bucket - Amazon S3
In this article you will see how to create a S3 bucket in AWS (Amazon web services).
What is the Amazon S3 bucket?
An Amazon S3 bucket is a type of cloud storage available in Amazon web services.In this storage we use object-based methods to store data rather than storing in files. Each object has a key or key name.
Let's start with Step by step to create a bucket:
Step 1: Login to your aws account and in the search bar type S3 ad you will see S3 Scalable storage in the cloud click on it.
Step 2: Now you will see a button called create bucket click on it.
Step 3: Now Enter your bucket name and scroll down and then you will see an option Block all public access. Uncheck if you want to access your files publicly unless it should be checked. After that click on create bucket.
Step 4: After that if you want to access files in storage first you have to give the permission for public access. Click on your bucket then click on the Permission tab .
Step 5: Click on Edit bucket policy.
Step 6: Copy this json and paste to the policy box and make sure to change the bucket name in the json then click on save changes.
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": "*",
"Action": "s3:GetObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::bucket-name/*"
}
]
}
Step 7: You can access files with https://bucket-name.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/folder-or-file-name. You will get this link when you click on files which are stored in s3 bucket. you will see an object url which is the live link of that file,image or any file.
By following these steps you have created a s3 bucket which is publicly accessible. Now you can upload the files in the storage and can access the files publicly means you can share with anyone with that live link. If you have any questions about this you can contact from the contact page. If you want to learn deep in the S3 bucket you can go through this link. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/s3/
