Steps to Create AWS s3 Bucket

What is S3(Simple Storage Service)

1. Amazon S3 is a service that lets you store and protect data of any size for different purposes like data lakes, websites, mobile apps, backups, and more. It's scalable, secure, and offers good performance. You can manage your data in Amazon S3 to meet your business needs, like organizing and optimizing access based on your requirements.

   Log on to AWS Console

2. Log in to the AWS console(https://aws.amazon.com/console/) with your username and password, If you don't have an account already created on AWS, you can create one.
   Steps to create the account first-time https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account

3. If you created an account on AWS first time then it will be a root and admin account, you should not use this account for all the operations. Rather than create a new IAM user with admin permission and perform all the operations using an IAM user. Follow the steps to create the IAM admin user https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/setting-up.html

   Create S3 bucket

4. Once you log in to the AWS console using your IAM user, It will land you on the aws console Home page then follow the below-mentioned steps to create the S3 bucket:

1. Search for s3 in the services search

2. 

   Click in s3 what is shown in the above picture and it will open the S3 dashboard then click on Create bucket which is displayed below the screenshot

3. 

   Then input the bucket name as I entered test-ramkumar-bucket, and leave the rest option as default. please NOTE that Capital letters are not accepted in the bucket name, see the rules for bucket naming https://docs.aws.amazon.com/console/s3/bucket-naming

   then Scroll down till the end of the page and click on Create Bucket

4. 

   Then you can your bucket on the list and your bucket is created, now you can start uploading objects in your S3 bucket

   

5. Create Folders inside the bucket(It's like the Windows folder or Linux directory)

   Click on the bucket name, here in my case on test-ramkumar-bucket, Then click on create folder

   

6. Then enter the folder name of your choice, I am entering input, then click on create folder which is at the right side on the bottom of your screen, I have created another folder thumbnails apart from input, your folder would be displayed like below: