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S3 Storage Settings

S3 Storage Regions

Australia

Region Code Region Name
au Australia
au-nsw Australia - Data must be kept only in New South Wales
au-vic Australia - Data must be kept only in Victoria ***
au-wa Australia - Data must be kept only in Western Australia ***

Hong Kong

Region Code Region Name
hk Hong Kong ***

Indonesia

Region Code Region Name
id Indonesia ***

Kyrgyzstan

Region Code Region Name
kg Kyrgyzstan ***

Mongolia

Region Code Region Name
mn Mongolia
mn-gem1 Mongolia - Data must be kept only in Gemnet Datacenters ***

Philippines

Region Code Region Name
ph Philippines

*** References a region code that does not have dual-physical site service availability

Example:
Bucket URL:  rackcorpwikidemo.au.s3.rackcorp.com
Description: References data stored on the S3 platform, only hitting Australia-based S3 services for the bucket named rackcorpwikidemo

 

How to install s3cmd for RackCorp

INSTALL PACKAGES

CentOS 8+ / Rocky Linux / RPM-based Linux

yum install s3cmd

Debain / Ubuntu / .deb based linux

apt install s3cmd

CONFIGURATION

Demo Read-Only Access Key / Secret

Access Key: F4LV2SVMHUOL1UOD2LLF
Secret Key: plax+zs9eSmvLVl2E7Wc8fRyv+cyuq7vYgQi7E/6
Default Region: US
S3 Endpoint: s3.rackcorp.com
DNS Template (if required): %(bucket)s.s3.rackcorp.com

(You can create your own inside our portal SERVICES -> STORAGE -> S3 CREDENTIALS / S3 BUCKETS)

[demo@demohost demo]# s3cmd --configure

Enter new values or accept defaults in brackets with Enter.
Refer to user manual for detailed description of all options.

Access key and Secret key are your identifiers for Amazon S3. Leave them empty for using the env variables.
Access Key: F4LV2SVMHUOL1UOD2LLF
Secret Key: plax+zs9eSmvLVl2E7Wc8fRyv+cyuq7vYgQi7E/6
Default Region [US]: 

Use "s3.amazonaws.com" for S3 Endpoint and not modify it to the target Amazon S3.
S3 Endpoint [s3.amazonaws.com]: s3.rackcorp.com

Use "%(bucket)s.s3.amazonaws.com" to the target Amazon S3. "%(bucket)s" and "%(location)s" vars can be used
if the target S3 system supports dns based buckets.
DNS-style bucket+hostname:port template for accessing a bucket [%(bucket)s.s3.amazonaws.com]: %(bucket)s.s3.rackcorp.com

Encryption password is used to protect your files from reading
by unauthorized persons while in transfer to S3
Encryption password: 
Path to GPG program [/bin/gpg]: 

When using secure HTTPS protocol all communication with Amazon S3
servers is protected from 3rd party eavesdropping. This method is
slower than plain HTTP, and can only be proxied with Python 2.7 or newer
Use HTTPS protocol [Yes]: 

On some networks all internet access must go through a HTTP proxy.
Try setting it here if you can't connect to S3 directly
HTTP Proxy server name: 

New settings:
  Access Key: F4LV2SVMHUOL1UOD2LLF
  Secret Key: plax+zs9eSmvLVl2E7Wc8fRyv+cyuq7vYgQi7E/6
  Default Region: US
  S3 Endpoint: s3.rackcorp.com
  DNS-style bucket+hostname:port template for accessing a bucket: %(bucket)s.s3.rackcorp.com
  Encryption password: 
  Path to GPG program: /bin/gpg
  Use HTTPS protocol: True
  HTTP Proxy server name: 
  HTTP Proxy server port: 0

Test access with supplied credentials? [Y/n] Y
Please wait, attempting to list all buckets...
Success. Your access key and secret key worked fine :-)

Now verifying that encryption works...
Not configured. Never mind.

Save settings? [y/N] Y
Configuration saved to '/home/demo/.s3cfg'

 

S3 Storage White-label Partner Services

RackCorp also extends all of the above S3 Storage Regions to our white-label partner programme where you assign your s3.<yourhostname> nameservers to RackCorp hosted DNS.  Please contact sales@rackcorp.com for further information.

 

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