Changing settings for Amazon S3 accounts

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To change settings for a cloud account to Amazon S3 account, you can use either the management GUI or the command-line interface.

When settings are changed on the cloud account, any snapshot versions of volumes that are stored on the cloud become unavailable. Before you change any settings that are related to the cloud account, ensure that you restore data from the cloud storage or delete the cloud snapshots from cloud storage. After the changes are completed to the cloud account, new cloud snapshots can be created of volume data. Some situations might require that you update certain settings on the cloud account. For example, if a cloud service provider updates credential information, then changes to the cloud account information on the system are required. For some settings, the system restricts any updates.

For a cloud account with Amazon S3, the following settings cannot be changed:
Region
Enter the user name that is associated with the account. The user name is used to identify clients that can access content that is stored by the cloud service provider.
Bucket prefix
Enter short string that is added to the name of the bucket to identify which storage objects are associated with the system. Prefixes can also be used to identify multiple systems that use the same cloud account to store snapshots of volume data. A bucket is a container that Amazon S3 creates to hold objects that are associated with a particular client.
Encryption
If encryption is configured on the system, this value is preselected. If encryption is not enabled on the system, this option is unavailable.

Using the management GUI

To change settings for an Amazon S3 cloud account, complete these steps:

  1. In the management GUI, select Settings > System > Transparent Cloud Tiering.
  2. On the Transparent Cloud Tiering page, verify that the state of the cloud account is online. If the cloud account is not online, the connection to the cloud service provider is not available. Select Monitoring > Events to investigate the cause of the problem. You might need to access the cloud service provider to determine the connection problem.
  3. Expand the Account information to view settings that are related to the account. The following settings can be updated:
    Access key ID
    Enter the new public part of the credential that the system uses to authenticate to cloud services. The access key ID is essentially a user name.
    Secret access key

    Enter the new private part of the credential that the system uses to authenticate the system to cloud services. To update the secret access key, click Edit.

  4. Click Save.
  5. On the Force Changes page, click Force to accept the changes or click Cancel to discard the changes and retain the original settings.

Using the command line interface

To change the access key ID and the secret access key for the cloud account, enter the following command:
chcloudaccountawss3 -accesskeyid access_key_id -secretaccesskey secret_access_key cloud_account_id_or_name
where access_key_id is the public access key ID and secret_access_key is the private part of the access key. The cloud_account_id_or_name variable is either the name or the system-assigned identifier for the cloud account.
If you want to delete custom certificates and use default certificates for the cloud account, enter the following command:
chcloudaccountawss3 -nocertificate cloud_account_id_or_name
where cloud_account_id_or_name variable is either the name or the system-assigned identifier for the cloud account. The --nocertificate parameter deletes the custom certificate and the default certificate is used.