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How to create a bucket in US and Europe?

Bucket – Bucket is simply the "top level" folder at Amazon S3. It serves the purpose of a container that holds many objects. These objects in simple terminology can be considered as files. A bucket is owned by some one holding valid AWS account. In a single account there can be as many as 100 Buckets. The bucket owner ship is non transferable.

Similar to Domain names, Bucket names are also unique, so no two buckets can have same name, even if they are in two different user's accounts.

Let's now proceed to create a new bucket in Bucket Explorer:

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If you are a user of Bucket Explorer and want to create a new bucket in Europe or US, you must follow the steps below:
  1. Let's start the Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 Account.
  2. Click on "Create Bucket" create bucket icon or right click on bucket panel and select Create Bucket option.
  3. You will see a window.
  4. Enter the bucket name [1].
  5. Now select location where you want to create bucket i.e. either Europe or US.
  6. Click on "OK" button.
  7. Bucket will be created on specific location and you can see your bucket in Bucket listing.
  8. Now you can upload your data, images, photos etc. in this bucket.
  9. You've done.

If you want to upload file(S) in any desired bucket, follow the given steps:
  1. Let's start the Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 Account.
  2. Click on bucket, where you want to upload your files.
  3. Now go to local file explorer to select your files and folders that you want to upload.
  4. Click on Upload [2] upload button button to start uploading.
  5. Now you can see the progress bar at lower left corner of the window. (Upload takes time depending upon the file-size and number of files)
  6. After successful uploads you can see the files in object grid at right side.
  7. You've done uploading.
  1. ˆ bucket name : There are few naming conventions for a Bucket name. Things that need to be considered while naming a bucket are as below:
    1. Bucket name can only contain letters, numbers, periods, dash and under score.
      Note: European Bucket allows only lower case letters. Although Buckets created in the US may contain lower case and upper case both, Amazon recommends that you use all lower case letters when creating a bucket.
    2. Bucket name must start with letter or number.
    3. Bucket names must be 3-255 characters long .
    4. Bucket name can not be in IP address style.

    To confirm DNS requirements, further restrictions are suggested.
    1. Bucket names should not contain underscore (_).
    2. Bucket names should be 3-63 characters long.
    3. Bucket names should not end with dash(-).
    4. Dashes can not appear next to period.

  2. ˆ Upload :In Bucket Explorer, you can find two more upload options i.e.
    1. Right click on selected files/folders in local file explorer and choose Upload option
    2. Right click on object panel or bucket panel and choose Upload File(s)... option.