Managing S3 accounts and buckets

The following sections contains information about accounts, objects, and buckets creation.

Managing S3 accounts
Accounts are required to manage S3 user access in IBM Storage Scale. Use the mms3 account commands to create, delete, update, and list S3 accounts.
Managing S3 buckets using AWS CLI
The S3 APIs for managing buckets can be used to manage the S3 buckets at the S3 client. The S3 command of the AWS command line interface (CLI) is used in the following step to create buckets. An alias is created for the AWS CLI that uses the S3 access keys and the CES IP of the CES node where S3 is enabled and running. This procedure is an example of managing S3 buckets. The listing of buckets and objects does not show any results, because no buckets or objects are created.
Managing S3 buckets using the mms3 command
Use the mms3 bucket commands to create, delete, update, and list S3 buckets.
S3 objects API
IBM Storage Scale allows S3 users to manage objects by using the following API requests:
S3 buckets API
IBM Storage Scale S3 maps each S3 bucket to a directory in the IBM Storage Scale file system. IBM Storage Scale S3 allows S3 clients to manage S3 buckets by using the following API requests:

Parent topic: Managing S3 protocol