Setup

A guide to setup S3 Bucket in AWS

Go to S3

Open console and go to All services

Now here select S3

Create a Bucket

Click on Create Bucket

A setting page will open up for your bucket.

General Settings

Write name of the bucket

You can Block public access, unless and until you wish to share these backups with everyone across world.

You should disable it at default, Keeping each version consumes more storage (more bills).

Additonal Settings (doesn't effect backups)

Done

PS: name of bucket different from chosen name, as amazon requires your bucket name to be unique in global namespace

Let's Create ACCESS_KEY and SECRET_KEY now.

Revisit All Services

and go to IAM service, remember do not visit IAM Identity Center

IAM dashboard will open.

Go to Users in left side-bar

Click on user you want to go with, (Create a user if not already available)

Go to Access keys

Click on Create access key

Choose Command Line Interface(CLI)

Click on Next

Describe Tag value. e.g. backup-s3-keys

Click on Create access key

!!Done

Root user (not recommended by aws) Only use this If you don't want to create a user.

Go to IAM, A dashboard will open.

Here scroll and go to Access keys

Click on Create access key

!!Done