Creating an Amazon storage account

Amazon S3 is the online storage service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). To use Amazon S3, you must sign up for an AWS account. For details about Amazon S3 and instructions for creating an AWS account, see Amazon’s documentation at http://aws.amazon.com/s3/.

Note: Amazon’s Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) option is not supported.

After creating an account and storage buckets, you must enter the following storage bucket credentials when adding the cloud storage to your Unitrends appliance:

     Access Key ID

     Secret Access Key

These credentials are different from the username and password used to access your Amazon storage account. You can view the credentials here: https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index.html?ie=UTF8&action=access-key. If you cannot locate your credentials, contact your storage provider. Unitrends does not have access to this information.

For instruction on adding cloud storage, see Adding cloud archive storage to the Unitrends appliance.