# How to Create an Amazon S3 Bucket: Step-by-Step Guide

### Introduction

1. S3 stands for Simple Storage Service.
    
2. Amazon S3 is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
    
3. Store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, cloud-native applications, backups, archive, machine learning, and analytics.
    
4. Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) of durability, and stores data for millions of customers all around the world.
    

### Steps to Create an S3 Bucket

1. Open the **AWS Management Console** and navigate to the **S3 dashboard**.
    
2. Click **Create bucket**.
    
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3. Select **General purpose** bucket type.
    
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4. Write a bucket name, this name must be globally unique.
    
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5. Select **ACLs disabled** under **Object Ownership.**
    
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6. Leave the **Block all public access** checked**.**
    
7. Set **Bucket Versioning** disabled**.**
    
8. Click **Create bucket**.
    
9. Open the newly created bucket by clicking on its name.
    
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10. Click **Upload**.
    
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11. Now click on Add files.
    
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12. Select any file you want to upload, preferably a text file.
    
13. Scroll and click **Upload**.
    
14. Select the file -> **Actions** -> **Download As** -> Click on the file name, A new tab will open and download will start -> **Close.**
    
15. Now Select the file -> Click **Copy URL**. -> Paste in a new browser tab, Unfortunately, you won't be able to view the file.
    
16. Now Select the file -> Click **Open**, File will open up in a new tab.
    
17. You can see the file can be accessed only by this account and no one else can access it.
    
18. To make the Object's URL publically available -> Select the bucket -> Make public using ACL, this option must be disabled because we disabled ACLs in step 6.
    
19. To change it Go to permission.
    
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20. Click **Edit** on **Block public access (bucket settings) ->** Uncheck **Block all public access -> Save changes ->** type **confirm -> Confirm.**
    
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21. Click **Edit** on **Bucket Ownership** -> **ACLs enabled** -> Check the acknowledgement -> Save changes.
    
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22. Now go back to **Objects**.
    
23. Select the object -> **Actions** -> **Make public ACL** -> **Make Public**.
    
24. Now select the object -> **Copy URL** -> Paste it into another tab, and the file should open.
    
25. To delete the object, select the object ->Click **Delete** -> type permanently delete -> Click **Delete Objects.**
    
26. To delete the bucket, select the bucket -> Click **Delete** -> type the bucket name -> Click **Delete bucket**.