There are many good reasons to use S3 (Simple Storage Service) storage. This is a quick overview of how to create a S3 bucket.
Creating the S3 Bucket
To create a S3 bucket go to the S3 Management Console. Press the Create bucket button.
![The AWS S3 management console.](aws-s3-management-console.png)
Choose a name for the bucket and select a region. If you have existing EC2 instances then it makes sense to select the same location. Press the Next button.
![Choosing S3 bucket name and region.](aws-s3-name.png)
You can choose to apply Versioning, Logging or Tags to the bucket. But for the moment we’ll just skip over those and press the Next button.
![Choosing bucket options.](aws-s3-properties.png)
You can also have rather fine grained control over access permissions. But, again, we’ll accept the defaults and simply press the Next button.
![Setting bucket access permissions.](aws-s3-permissions.png)
Finally review your choices and if everything is at it should be then press the Create bucket button.
![Reviewing bucket parameters.](aws-s3-review.png)
The newly created bucket should then appear on your bucket list (this is the other type of bucket list!).
You can also create the bucket using the AWS CLI interface.