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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, the 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 the addressing type. We recommend choosing vHosted 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 versions of objects, 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.