How to open Amazon S3 account
Posted on August 24th, 2009 in Tutorials | No Comments »
Level: Beginner
So, you want to take advantage of scalable, reliable and cost effective solution for hosting your online videos? Here is your step-by-step guide on how to open Amazon S3 account and configure FLV Mate to use it.
Although creating account is free, you will need a credit card to sign up. Amazon will bill you monthly based on your account activities. If you don’t use your account and don’t put any data there, there will be no charge. When you start storing data and generate traffic, you will start to get billed.
Please review Amazon S3 pricing before opening your account. You can use this simple calculator to estimate your monthly Amazon S3 costs.
Having said that, let’s get started.
- Sign up or Login to Amazon
- Fill in an account form
- Enable Amazon S3
- Retrieve you Access Key and Secret key
- Configure FLV Mate
Go to www.amazonaws.com and click Sign Up Now button.
Sign up for a new account or use your existing Amazon.com account if you wish.
Fill in the form and accept a service agreement.
Select Amazon Simple Storage Service from the list of services.
Click Sign Up For Amazon S3.
Review pricing and enter your credit card details.
Go to www.amazonaws.com and login.
Under You Account menu select Access Identifiers.
Get your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.
Open FLV Mate options screen and select S3 Account tab.
Paste your Access Key and Secret Key and click Test Connection.
If you’ve done every thing correctly you now have your own cloud-based video hosting service and ready to publish your first video with FLV Mate. Next time I will show you how to set up your own domain to be used with Amazon S3 (the upcoming version of FLV Mate will support it). You will be able to point media.youdomain.com to your Amazon S3 account.
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