Sample fields for Amazon S3 remote setup?

[rtjdamen]

@archw ok, i just used a simple name like bucket123 for it, and that worked, did u set the AIM correct?

[archw]

@rtjdamen
Whats an "AIM"?

[rtjdamen]

@archw inside amazon console u navigate to AIM, u can create a new user, give the user access to s3 storage.

Then u need to go into this user and create an access key

[archw]

@rtjdamen
Oh...that...yeah...I've got another piece of software that pushes the info to S3 however it doesn't use a "user name". Instead it uses the S3 access key ID and secret key. Is that what you meant?

[rtjdamen]

@archw yes, u need to create a new user and then create the access key id and secret key to connect, if u need to check your credentials use winscp to check if everything is set up correctly

[archw]

@rtjdamen
Boom - that worked!

I opened up an SCP session and let it take the defaults and it immediately connected. I noticed that WINSCP calls it "s3.amazonaws.com" so I changed :

AW s3 endpoint= "s3express-control.us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
-to-
AW s3 endpoint= "s3.amazonaws.com"

I also changed:
Directory="s3://mybucket123456-789-0123-4567-890123/mystuff/my-backups/"
-to-
Directory="mystuff/my-backups/"

Thanks!!

[rtjdamen]

@archw glad i could help!

[archw]

@rtjdamen
You rock!

[olivierlambert]

Is there anything we could add to our doc to make it better for new users?

[archw]

@olivierlambert

Example of what a successful screen look like (even though it has fake work in it). Sort of like the shadow y'all put in the fields.

[olivierlambert]

Can you write exactly what you would expect to be written as a "pre written" text?