What's AWS S3? Long story short... AWS S3, or Amazon Simple Storage Service, is storage for the Internet. Designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. source: Amazon Why you need it? Well... to store files in the cloud. These files are stored in Buckets, a resource where you can upload any number of objects using the Amazon S3 API. How to create a Bucket? 1. Visit website. Amazon Web Services (AWS) 2. Sign in to your AWS Amazon Account (if you don't have one click on ). this link Select and use your email and password to enter your AWS Management console. "Root user" 3. In the AWS Management Console, search for , and select the first option. "S3" You'll be taken to the S3 Bucket dashboard. 4. Click on button Create Bucket 5. Enter the desired and select the geographical closest to you. Bucket name Region You can review the other options and change as needed but for a NOTE: basic configuration is not needed. Click on the button Create bucket 6. ... you should see a success message and the created bucket in your bucket list in the dashboard. Done! Related links from the source: Create and configure AWS S3 Bucket This article is part of the tutorials collection. Mini Ruby on Rails The collection is a series of short and straight forward tutorials. Directed to Ruby on Rails beginners, to help them set up a Rails application in a fast and easy way. Mini RoR
