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Amazon S3 storage

Viewing your Amazon S3 buckets

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After you install a Connector in AWS, BlueXP can automatically discover information about the Amazon S3 buckets that reside in the AWS account where the Connector is installed. An Amazon S3 working environment is added to the Canvas so you can view this information.

You can see details about your S3 buckets, including the region, access policy, account, total and used capacity, and more. These buckets can be used as destinations for BlueXP backup and recovery, BlueXP tiering, or BlueXP copy and sync operations. Additionally, you can use BlueXP classification to scan these buckets.

Steps

  1. Install a Connector in the AWS account where you want to view your Amazon S3 buckets.

  2. From the navigation menu, select Storage > Canvas.

    You should automatically see your Amazon S3 working environment shortly after.

    A screenshot of an Amazon S3 working environment.

  3. Click the working environment and select an action from the right pane if you want to enable BlueXP services with your S3 storage.

    A screenshot that shows the actions pane after you select an Amazon S3 working environment. The pane shows information about S3: the number of buckets and the available services.

    See which BlueXP services are available and learn how to use them with your S3 buckets.

  4. Click Enter Working Environment, or double-click the working environment, to view details about the S3 buckets in your AWS account.

    A screenshot that shows the details of an Amazon S3 working environment: the total number of buckets and total number of regions, and a table that shows details about each S3 bucket.

    In addition to the columns that appear by default, you can scroll the page to view additional properties for the bucket; for example, the number of Tags, and whether Object Lock or Versioning have been enabled.

What's next

You can change some bucket settings directly from BlueXP by clicking the three dots more button for a bucket. Go here for details.

You can add new S3 buckets by clicking Add bucket. Go here for details.