Create buckets

After you register a Kingsoft Cloud account and activate KS3, you can start to create buckets in the KS3 console. All objects of KS3 are stored in buckets. You must create a bucket before you can store data in KS3.

Limits

• You can use a Kingsoft Cloud account to create up to 100 buckets.
• The name of a bucket must be unique in KS3.
• After a bucket is created, its name and region cannot be changed.
• KS3 does not limit the capacity of a bucket.

Procedure

1. Log in to the KS3 console.

2. Click Bucket in the left navigation pane. On the page that appears, click Create Bucket.

   Note: The bucket name must conform to the naming rules and be unique in KS3. After a bucket is created, the bucket name cannot be changed.

   The bucket name must conform to the following naming rules:

   • The name can contain only lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens (-).
   • The name must start and end with a lowercase letter or digit.
   • The name can contain 3 to 63 characters in length.
   • The name cannot be in the IP address format, such as 192.168.0.1.
   • The name cannot start with kss.

3. In the Create Bucket panel, select a region and enter a name for the bucket. The bucket name must conform to the naming rules and be unique in KS3. After the bucket is created, the bucket name cannot be changed.

   The region cannot be changed. To access KS3 from your Kingsoft Cloud Elastic Compute (KEC) instance over internal network, you must select the same region as your KEC instance. For more information, see Endpoint and Region.

4. Set the Project parameter to the project to which the bucket belongs. After the bucket is created, you can change the project as required.

5. Set the Storage type parameter to Standard or Archive. You can access objects in a Standard bucket without restoring them. An Archive bucket stores objects that are stored for a long time and rarely accessed. To access such objects, you must restore them first.

6. Set the Access Control parameter to the required access permission.

   Public Reading/Writing: Anyone including anonymous users can upload objects to the bucket and list the objects, and costs of all these operations are borne by the bucket creator. Use this permission with caution.

   Public Reading: Only the bucket creator can write data to the objects in the bucket, but anyone including anonymous users can list the objects in the bucket.

   Private: Only the bucket creator can upload objects to the bucket and list the objects. Others have no access to the objects in the bucket.

7. Click OK.