Preparing to configure cloud-container storage pools for Amazon Web Services
Before you configure cloud-container storage pools to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you must obtain information from Amazon that is required for the configuration process.
About this task
Amazon Web Services (AWS) account credentials are different from Amazon account credentials. Use the credentials for your AWS account when you configure storage pools in the Operations Center or with the DEFINE STGPOOL command.
Amazon S3 uses buckets to store data. Amazon S3 buckets are used in the same manner as containers in a cloud-container storage pool. IBM Spectrum Protect™ automatically creates a bucket in Amazon for an instance of IBM Spectrum Protect, and that bucket is shared by all pools for that instance.
Restriction: Edit an Amazon S3 bucket only with IBM
Spectrum Protect, and do not change the data in the bucket or edit
the configuration settings for the bucket.