Amazon S3 API compatibility

Users familiar with the Amazon S3 API and accessing S3 buckets and objects can access Swift using S3-compatible APIs with the help of Swift3 middleware.

Here, we will show you the steps required for a method that uses S3 APIs to access Swift's object store. These steps explain how to install the necessary tools and packages, create credentials, and update the configuration files.

The following steps are to be performed on the proxy server node that is running the Ubuntu 14.04 Linux distribution:

  1. First, the user requires EC2 credentials (access key and secret key). The keystone user-list and keystone tenant-list commands can be used to obtain the user ID and tenant ID of the user. The following command can be used to create ...

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