Preparing to configure cloud-container storage pools for AWS with S3 (off premises)
Before you configure cloud-container storage pools to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) off premises with the Simple Storage Service (S3) protocol, you must obtain information from Amazon that is required for the configuration process.
About this task
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.
AWS uses buckets to store data. AWS 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: The following restrictions apply.
- Edit an AWS bucket only with IBM Spectrum Protect, and do not change the data in the bucket or edit the configuration settings for the bucket.
- For off-premises cloud-container storage pools that use AWS with the Amazon S3 protocol, data is encrypted by default. However, the IBM Spectrum Protect server does not support encryption of the data by using AWS bucket policies.