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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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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

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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 as a Service setup.

Adding your AWS S3 Bucket to Vidinet.


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

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Info

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

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