Backup GitHub repository using Amazon S3 Bucket Access Key
About Amazon S3 Bucket
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.
Required permissions
- s3:PutObject - required, for backup archive upload to Amazon S3 bucket
- s3:GetObject - optional, for backup restore and instant download from Amazon S3 bucket
- s3:DeleteObject - optional, for retention policy, automatic removal of outdated backups from Amazon S3 bucket
- s3:GetBucketLocation - optional, required to automatically determine the
Service Endpoint URL
- s3:PutObjectRetention - optional, required for
S3 Object Lock
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- s3:PutObjectLegalHold - optional, required for
S3 Object Lock
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Set up Amazon S3 Bucket Access Key as a customer managed storage
- In the Cloudback Dashboard open the repository settings by clicking on the settings icon:
- Click on the
+ New storage
button:
- Type a storage name:
-
Select ‘Amazon S3 Bucket Access Key’ as a storage provider
-
Create an Amazon S3 Bucket
-
To find Bucket ARN, click on the name of your bucket in the S3 console:
- Click on
Properties
copy ARN and paste it in Step 1 on the Cloudback site:
- Create an AWS access key:
- Type it’s id and secret to Step 2 and click on
Save
button:
- Save changes: