Amazon S3

IBM® Storage Protect for Cloud will by default use HTTPS (SSL) communication to access your Amazon S3 storage and store your backup data to the S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval / Standard-IA storage class automatically. You can move the backup data from S3 Standard-IA to S3 Standard, S3 One Zone-IA, or S3 Intelligent-Tiering, and IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Azure VMs, Storage, and Entra ID can restore the backup data of those storage classes.

Procedure

Follow the instructions below:

  1. Storage Type – Select Amazon S3 from the drop-down list.
  2. Bucket name – Enter the bucket name you wish to access.
    Note the following:
    • The entered name must match an existing bucket. If no bucket is available, refer to Creating a bucket to create one.
    • Ensure the bucket policy in Amazon S3 storage applied to your account contains the following required permissions:
      • Read: Get Object
      • List: ListBucket
      • Write: DeleteObject; PutObject; DeleteObjectVersion
  3. Access Key ID – Enter the corresponding access key ID to access the specified bucket. You can view the Access key ID from your AWS account.
  4. Secret Access Key – Enter the corresponding secret key ID to access the specified bucket. You can view the Secret access key from your AWS account.
    Note: The AWS account must have the AmazonS3FullAccess policy assigned.
  5. Storage Region – Select the Storage region of this bucket from the drop-down menu. You can use the Search box to search for region via keywords.
  6. Extended parameters – Enter the following extended parameters if necessary. If you have multiple parameters to enter, use a semicolon (;) to separate the parameters. Refer to the instructions below to add parameters.
    • RetryInterval – Customize the retry interval when the network connection is interrupted. Enter any positive integer between 0 and 2147483646 (the unit is millisecond). For example, RetryInterval=30000 means that it will try to reconnect every 30000 milliseconds.

      If you do not configure this parameter, the value is 30000 milliseconds by default.

    • RetryCount – Customize the reconnection times after the network connection is interrupted. Enter any positive integer between 0 and 2147483646. For example, RetryCount=6 represents when the network connection is interrupted, and it can reconnect at most 6 times.

      If you do not configure this parameter, the value is 6 by default.

    • RetryMode – Customize the retry mode for the requests not being completed successfully. If this parameter is not configured or configured incorrectly, the Legacy will be applied as the default value. You can also set the value to Standard or Adaptive. Standard represents the standardized request retry strategy which is consistent across all SDKs; Adaptive represents an experimental request retry strategy that builds on the Standard strategy and introduces congestion control through client-side rate limiting.
  7. Click Save to save your storage profile. The storage path cannot be changed once saved, and the storage profile cannot be deleted once the storage has been applied to store the backup data for a region.