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How to create an Amazon S3 bucket in US, US-West (Northern California), AP-SouthEast-1 (Singapore) 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 . A single account can have maximum 100 Buckets . The bucket ownership is non-transferable.

If you don’t have any bucket in your account, then after logging into your account, you will be prompt a message -

"Please create a bucket for any further operations. (Without a bucket no operations can be initiated.). A bucket you create is owned by you for purpose of billing, and you will be charged storage fees for all objects stored in the bucket and bandwidth fees for all data read from and written to the bucket."

The “Create Bucket” window appears after that message to create a bucket(s). If you have less than 5 buckets in you account then after logging in, there will be a tool tip displayed at the ‘Bucket’ icon on bucket tool bar as “Click here to create bucket”. Similar to Domain names, Bucket names are also unique , no two buckets can have same name, even if they are in two different user's accounts.

Create Bucket option simply creates a new " bucket ". You need to enter bucket name in " Bucket Name " window and choose the location of bucket where you want to create it. You can create buckets in 7 edge locations -   US  ,  US-West (Northern California) ,  US West (Oregon) ,  EU (Ireland) ,   Asia Pacific (Singapore)   ,  Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and  South America (Sao Paulo)   only. If desired bucket name already exists, you will be notified with alert message and few suggested names matching to your request are displayed. You can go with one of the suggested options or can look for a different title.
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Follow the steps to create a new Amazon S3 bucket in Europe or US:

  1. Run Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 Account.
  2. Click on " Create Bucket" create amazon s3 bucket icon or right click on bucket panel and select Create Bucket option.
  3. You will see a create bucket window.
  4. Enter the bucket name [1] .
  5. Now select location where you want to create bucket .
  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.
     
 

Follow the steps to create a new Amazon S3 bucket in US-West (Northern California):


  1. Run Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 Account.
  2. Click on " Create Bucket" create amazon s3 bucket icon or right click on bucket panel and select Create Bucket option.
  3. You will see a create bucket window.
  4. Enter the bucket name [1] .
  5. Now select location US-West (Northern California) from combo box.
  6. Click on " OK " button.
  7. Bucket will be created on US-West (Northern California) 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.  
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Follow the steps to create a new Amazon S3 bucket in AP-SouthEast-1(Singapore):


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  1. Run Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 Account.
  2. Click on " Create Bucket" create amazon s3 bucket icon or right click on bucket panel and select Create Bucket option.
  3. You will see a create bucket window.
  4. Enter the bucket name [1] .
  5. Now select location AP-SouthEast-1(Singapore) from combo box.
  6. Click on " OK " button.
  7. Bucket will be created on AP-SouthEast-1(Singapore) location and you can see your bucket in Bucket listing.
  8. Now you can upload your data, images, photos etc. in this bucket.  

   

Bucket Explorer also supports  Amazon's new region end points -    US West (Oregon)  and  South America (Sao Paulo)   .  You can easily create Bucket and perform operations in these region end points.

  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.

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