# AWS Series: Creating an S3 Bucket

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Ah, the notorious S3 bucket. There's a ton of content on doing this, but here's some quick instructions on creating a general S3 bucket. In the next article, we'll create a IAM user to access that bucket.

### Steps:

1. Assuming you have a AWS account and access to the Management Console, type S3 in the search bar
    
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    Click "Create Bucket". We're using a general purpose bucket for our example
    
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    Give your bucket a unique name. Feel free to read up on the various config options like ACLs, encryption, versioning, but we can leave everything default for now
    
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    Hit "create bucket" and the S3 bucket will be created within a few seconds
    
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    Voila. You're not a Cloud expert. Go and conquer the world! But actually, read how to assign permissions to the bucket below
    

**Assigning Permission to S3:** [**LINK**](https://christiantechbro.com/aws-series-assigning-iam-user-to-s3)