Back up 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• s3:DeleteObject - optional, for retention policy, automatic removal of outdated backups from Amazon S3 bucket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 the S3 Object Lock header x-amz-object-lock-mode

• s3:PutObjectLegalHold - optional, required for the S3 Object Lock header x-amz-object-lock-legal-hold

• s3:PutObjectTagging - optional, required for the S3 Object Tagging header x-amz-tagging

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 its id and secret to Step 2 and click on Save button:

• Save changes: