Service Structure

The Object Storage S3 service is structured as follows:

For each S3 instance, you can create multiple S3 Users, where each of them can be granted different roles.

S3 Instance

The S3 instance (=namespace) is the layer you will interact with. You can access an S3 instance via common S3 clients and CLIs, such as the AWS CLI, MinIO, S3 Browser or Cyberduck. Read the general usage section for more information.

Through these clients you can interact with your S3 instance via the standardized Amazon S3 API.

You can order an S3 instance through the Enterprise Service Cloud Catalog, see Manage S3 Instance.

S3 User

S3 users are the credentials you need to access your S3 instance. You can create multiple users for your S3 instance. A user can either have read/write or read-only rights on the entire S3 instance. More fine grained access, e.g. on bucket level, is currently not supported.

You can order an S3 User directly on yor existing S3 instances, see Manage S3 User.