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Create a bucket

  1. In the control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select S3.

  2. Go to the Buckets section.

  3. Click Create bucket.

  4. Enter a bucket name. For S3 API compatibility, the bucket name must meet the following conditions:

    • be unique among the buckets of all users who use storage via S3 API and are hosted in the same pool;
    • comply with Amazon S3 bucket naming rules — contain only numbers, Latin letters, and characters . and -, for details see the Bucket naming rules guide in the Amazon documentation.

  5. Select the region and pool where the bucket will be created.

  6. In the Configuration block:

    6.1. Select the bucket type:

    • private — for storing backups and other data accessible via login and password or an authorization token;
    • public — for hosting website or web application content; accessible without authorization.

    6.2. Select a storage class:

    • standard storage — for storing and serving frequently requested data;
    • cold storage — for storing rarely requested data;
    • glacier storage — for storing very rarely requested data. Available only in the ru-3 pool.

    The storage class only affects resource costs; technically and in terms of speed, the classes are identical. Once a bucket is created, the storage class cannot be changed.

    6.3. Select an addressing type. We recommend choosing virtual-hosted-style addressing for working with the S3 API. You cannot change the addressing type to path-style after creating the bucket.

  7. Optional: in the Data protection block:

    7.1. To store previous object versions, enable versioning.

    7.2. To protect objects from deletion, enable Object Lock. Enabling Object Lock does not lock objects automatically — you will be able to manage object locking after creating the bucket. Object Lock requires versioning — if you do not enable it, it will be enabled automatically.

  8. Click Create bucket.