How to create S3 bucket on AWS and make it Public

Search for S3 in the search bar and then click on it.

• Now click on the create button at the top right corner as seen in the below image, and that will lead you to create the AWS bucket.

• You will find one form where you will enter and select couple of things in that form

• For the 1st place (as seen in the No.1 red square), enter the name you want to keep for the bucket

• For the 2nd square, select the region which is the most nearest to you based on your market and your location

• For the 3rd square, please uncheck that check box as seen in the image so that our files can be accessible with URLS

• Whenever you check that checkbox, it will ask you to check one more box below that to confirm the public access of your bucket. Please check that box and then scroll down to the page and click on the button at the bottom saying “Create Bucket"

• After that it will lead you to the page where you can see all of your created bucket with the green notification on the top like below, it means that bucket has been created successfully.

• Once you have created your bucket, click on the bucket you have created and then we have to add some more permission to make the files publicly accessible

• For that, go to the permission tab on that page as shown in the image below

• Then scroll down to the Bucket policy section and there you will be able to see something like below, we will add few lines there and for that we have to click on the edit button on the top-right corner of that section as you can see the image below

• After clicking on that edit button please add few lines of code shown below in that. Make sure you don’t any kind of other content in it or you won’t be able to save it. Please follow the example below carefully

• For Example: My Bucket name is “bucket-shortzz“, you will add in that something like below. (Don’t copy and paste it), in that code there is something which needs to be changed with your bucket name

• Observe the last line of the below code, there is the name of your bucket, please replace it with yours and then add that in that field shown above

{

"Version": "2012-10-17",

"Statement": [

{

"Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",

"Effect": "Allow",

"Principal": "*",

"Action": "s3:GetObject",

"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::bucket-shortzz/*"

}

]

}

• Click on save changes and come back to the permission tab again

• Now scroll down to that permission where you will find the option “Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)” same like the policy

• Click on it’s edit button and then add the code below in it and save it. No need to change anything in the code below

[

{

"AllowedHeaders": [

"*"

],

"AllowedMethods": [

"GET",

"POST",

"PUT"

],

"AllowedOrigins": [

"*"

],

"ExposeHeaders": [

"ETag"

],

"MaxAgeSeconds": 3000

}

]

• Click on save.

• Now come back to permission tab and fine the "Object Ownership" tab and click on the edit at right end side, See the image below

• Now it will show something like below, where select the "ACLs enabled"

• Tick the check box before "I acknowledge that ACLs will be restored."

• and then click on save

• Click on “My Security Credentials” in those options and it will lead you to the another page

• On that page go to the “Access keys (access key ID and secret access key)” section as shown in the image below and there click on that Create New Access Key button

• As soon as you click on that button, your security credentials will be created and one pop-up will come up. Click on that Show Access Key and it will show you the credentials as shown in the image below

There is a download button too. by clicking that you can download credentials too.

So we have found the credentials to access our AWS S3 bucket

Now, you will need 2 more things for the bucket to be accessed and put files in it via APIs.

1. Region on which bucket is created

2. Bucket Name

These things can be found in the bucket lists, by going to the S3 page. As shown in the image below.