Creating buckets and objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service

by Nick Hardiman  |  October 17, 2012, 8:11am PDT  |  Image 6 of 15

Naming your bucket

AWS highlights things it doesn’t like in red.

This bucket name breaks AWS rules. The characters allowed in a bucket name are pretty limited, and the restrictions  vary from region to region.

  • Good characters:  a-z, numbers 0-9 and the special characters period (.), underscore (_ )and dash (-).
  • Bad characters: everything else. No spaces, apostrophe’s, ampersands or umlauts (sorry Günter).
  • Risky characters: The letters A-Z are OK in the US region but aren’t acceptable in Ireland.

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Nick Hardiman builds and maintains the infrastructure required to run Internet services. Nick deals with the lower layers of the Internet - the machines, networks, operating systems, and applications. Nick's job stops there, and he hands over to the designers and developers who build the top layer that customers use.