How to create S3 bucket on AWS and make it Public : Get Credentials

Here is a quick step-by-step guide on how do you create an S3 bucket on AWS and get the credentials to access it. Please consider the official documentation created by AWS itself for the latest changes and updates

Official Documentation by AWS to create S3 bucket. Click Here

Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/

After that you can see your console where you can see and explore your AWS services. Go to search bar and search for “S3” and you will find the service like the image below. Click on it and enter to that service

Search for S3 in the search bar and then click on it.

Now click on the create button at the top right corner as seen in the below image, and that will lead you to create the AWS bucket.

You will find one form where you will enter and select couple of things in that form

For the 1st place (as seen in the No.1 red square), enter the name you want to keep for the bucket

For the 2nd square, select the region which is the most nearest to you based on your market and your location

For the 3rd square, please uncheck that check box as seen in the image so that our files can be accessible with URLS

Whenever you check that checkbox, it will ask you to check one more box below that to confirm the public access of your bucket. Please check that box and then scroll down to the page and click on the button at the bottom saying “Create Bucket"

After that it will lead you to the page where you can see all of your created bucket with the green notification on the top like below, it means that bucket has been created successfully.

Once you have created your bucket, click on the bucket you have created and then we have to add some more permission to make the files publicly accessible

For that, go to the permission tab on that page as shown in the image below

Then scroll down to the Bucket policy section and there you will be able to see something like below, we will add few lines there and for that we have to click on the edit button on the top-right corner of that section as you can see the image below

After clicking on that edit button please add few lines of code shown below in that. Make sure you don’t any kind of other content in it or you won’t be able to save it. Please follow the example below carefully

For Example: My Bucket name is “bucket-shortzz“, you will add in that something like below. (Don’t copy and paste it), in that code there is something which needs to be changed with your bucket name

Observe the last line of the below code, there is the name of your bucket, please replace it with yours and then add that in that field shown above

Click on save changes and come back to the permission tab again

Now scroll down to that permission where you will find the option “Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)” same like the policy

Click on it’s edit button and then add the code below in it and save it. No need to change anything in the code below

Click on save.

Now come back to permission tab and fine the "Object Ownership" tab and click on the edit at right end side, See the image below

Now it will show something like below, where select the "ACLs enabled"

Tick the check box before "I acknowledge that ACLs will be restored."

and then click on save

Click on save and our bucket is ready to use. But to use it we will need some credentials from AWS.

Please follow the steps below to get the credentials listed above.

Log in to your AWS console if you are not logged in, go to your account info on the top-right corner of console, click on it it will show you the options like shown on the image below

Click on “My Security Credentials” in those options and it will lead you to the another page

On that page go to the “Access keys (access key ID and secret access key)” section as shown in the image below and there click on that Create New Access Key button

As soon as you click on that button, your security credentials will be created and one pop-up will come up. Click on that Show Access Key and it will show you the credentials as shown in the image below

So we have found the credentials to access our AWS S3 bucket

Now, you will need 2 more things for the bucket to be accessed and put files in it via APIs.

These things can be found in the bucket lists, by going to the S3 page. As shown in the image below.

The first one is the bucket name and the 2nd one is the region

While collecting the Region, mind well. Only Copy the thing covered in the red box. see example below

There is written “Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1” in my case. You will copy only “ap-south-1” as region

Save all these credentials in one text file to use them whenever required.