Connect Amazon S3 to a Project
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You connect one Amazon S3 bucket to your project. Different buckets can be linked to different components within the same project. Files added to your Amazon S3 bucket will be accessible via OSF. Likewise, files added to the Amazon S3 bucket from your OSF account will update your S3 account with that file. When you create an Amazon S3 Bucket, you can choose its physical location in the world. You might do this to minimize latency or meet funder requirements about where your data can be stored.
The Amazon S3 add-on allows you to connect external content to OSF. This connection does not store or back up this content on OSF. To back up your content to OSF Storage, consider Registering Your Project.
You will be taken to the "Add-ons" page for the project. Where you will select if you are looking for an “additional storage” add-on or a “citation manager” tool. In this case, you will select “addtional storage” and then click “Connect” under S3
The Amazon S3 terms will appear. Read the terms, then click the Confirm button.
2. Configure Amazon S3
Find Amazon S3 in the "Configure Add-ons" section, then click the Connect Account link
The "Connect an Amazon S3 Account" modal will appear. Log in to Amazon S3, and 1) Generate Access And 2) Secret Keys. 3) Because other contributors can connect their add-on accounts to a project you can distinguish your account with a different name. For example, naming your account “Your NAME_ADD-ON” Allows you to distinguish accounts from your collaborators. When you are finished naming click “Authorize” and then click 4) “Connect”
The "configure S3" modal will appear. Select what folder you would like to import by clicking a corresponding bubble and clicking the SAVE button.
Amazon S3 will be connected to your project.
