How to connect your AWS S3 storage
Lear how to connect your AWS S3 storage to Weap.io
Connecting your AWS S3 storage is very simple and quick.
Log in into your AWS console, open the S3 service and click the
Create Bucket
button. Give a name to your bucket and select a region. In our case we used weap-backups
as the name of the bucket and the region eu-central-1. The other options are ok like they are. The option
Block all public access
should be checked.Scroll at the bottom of the page and click the button
Create Bucket
.
Open the IAM service, go to the users section and click the button
Add user

Give a name to the user, check the option
Programmatic access
and click the button Next: Permissions
.
Skip the permissions page by clicking the button
Next: Tags
. We will not add any tag. Click the button Next: Review
. Finally, click the button Create user
. Save the Access key ID and Secret access key because are visible only once.
Again in the IAM service, search for the user you just created and open it. On the user page, click
Add inline policy
.
Choose the
JSON
editor and paste the policy below.Replace
weap-backups
with the name of the bucket you created at step 1 (if you used a different name).{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"s3:*"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:s3:::weap-backups/*",
"arn:aws:s3:::weap-backups"
]
}
]
}
Click the button
Review policy
and give it an intuitive name. Next, click the button Create policy
.Open your Weap.io dashboard and go to the
Storages
settings. Click the Add storage
button and fill the form with the details from the previous steps.
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