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Setting up MAM and distribution workflows using Vidinet VidiNet and AWS S3Bucket as storage.

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In the following how-to article you will learn how to configure an AWS S3 bucket for basic integration with Vidispine VidiCore API / VidinetVidiNet. The steps described in this article will require.

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  • a AWS account with the necessary control over the permissions needed for integration with Vidispine VidiCore /VidinetVidiNet

  • a basic understanding of the AWS services such as S3 ( the cloud storage)  and IAM ( the AWS permissions service ) 

  • an verified installation of Vidispine VidiCore API / VidinetVidiNet

  • a verified S3 bucket set up in your AWS account in order to attach this service to VidinetVidiNet


Table of contents

Instructions

Setting up your AWS S3 bucket


To create a S3 bucket in AWS, direct your attention to the webpage of your AWS account and the Service S3.

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In order for the S3 Bucket to be accessible for Vidinet VidiNet a user needs to be created, or modified, to be allowed to use this resource. To grant permissions for the user to the S3 storage resource an AWS IAM Policy is used.

First, create a new user that should have permission to access this S3 bucket. Navigate to the AWS IAM Service. Click Users and then click then button Add user. Follow the instruction prompted by the dialog box. Make sure to enable Programmatic Access to this users Access type.

Add User

During the user creation phase you will be prompted with the access key ID and secret access key

  • make sure to note these down in safe manner.

Configuring and adding permissions IAM

In order for this user to have access to the S3 resource you previously created, an IAM Policy needs to be set on this user. This can be done in several ways, one way is to use an inline policy for the user. Navigate to IAM Service once more, click Users and then click on the specific user you want to change permissions on. In our case this would be the user vidinet-user. Click the add inline policy button on the permissions tab for the user.

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After the storage, user and the policy has been created and updated we can proceed by filling in this information for the Vidispine VidiCore as a Service setup.

Adding your AWS S3 Bucket to

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VidiNet.


After you have created your S3 bucket according to the previous chapter, the configuration of the S3 bucket integration to your Vidinet VidiNet system should be quite straight forward from here.

During setup of your Vidispine VidiCore as a Service, for instance a Team Edition, you will be asked to configure an initial storage and a storage for thumbnails

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This how-to article describe a basic setup of an AWS bucket. For more advanced security and permission configuration of your AWS service to meet your companies requirements, please refer to AWS knowledge-base in the Related articles below.

Creating an S3 Bucket on AWS

Working with IAM policys on AWS

Getting started with VidinetVidiNet