Setting Up an Amazon S3™ Bucket for WHMCS

If you want to use Amazon S3™ as the storage provider for your WHMCS installation, you will need to create an S3 bucket.

Create an S3 Bucket

To create an Amazon S3 bucket:

1. Log in to your Amazon account at https://aws.amazon.com/.

2. Go to S3.

Select S3

3. Click Create bucket.

Click Crete bucket

4. Enter a name for your bucket.

5. Choose your desired region.

Enter a Bucket Name and select a Region

6. Configure the other bucket settings according to your needs. In most cases, for private buckets, you use the default settings.

7. Go to IAM.

Select IAM

8. Select Users in the left side menu.

9. Click Add user.

Add User

10. Enter a username.

11. Check Programmatic access for Access Type.

12. Click Next.

Enter username and select Programatic Access

13. Select Attach existing policies directly.

14. Click Create policy. The visual policy editor will load.

Select Attach existing policies directly and click Create policy

15. Select S3 for Service.

16. Select all of the following S3-related permissions:

  • ListBucket
  • GetObject
  • PutObject
  • ReplicateObject
  • DeleteObject
Select the required service permissions

17. Under Resources, select Specific.

18. Click Add ARN under bucket.

Select Resourses > Specific and click Add ARN

19. Enter the name of the bucket that you created earlier.

20. Click Add.

Enter the name of the buck and click Add

21. Click Add ARN under object.

Add an Object ARN

22. Enter the name of the bucket that you created earlier for Bucket name.

23. Check Any.

24. Click Add.

Enter the name of your bucks and tick the "Any" checkbox

25. Click Review Policy.

Click Review Policy

26. Enter a name for the new policy and, optionally, a description to help you identify it later.

27. Click Create Policy.

Enter a name and description. Click Create Policy

A success message will appear:

Success!

28. Return to the previous tab and refresh the list of policies.

29. Search for the name of the policy that you created.

30. Select the policy in the search results.

31. Click Next: Tags.

Select the newly created policy

32. Optionally, assign tags to the policy.

33. Click Next: Review and review the details.

34. Click Create user. A programmatic access key ID and secret will display.

35. Copy and store the displayed ID and secret. You will need them in order to configure the bucket in WHMCS.

Note the Access Key ID and Secret safely