External Storage Hosting - How To Configure AWS Storage

FilesAnywhere's Flex Storage please follow the steps below to configure your AWS storage and configure to your FilesAnywhere account. 

If you have any questions, please contact our support team to assist you by emailing support@filesanywhere.com

 

Table of Contents

• FilesAnywhere - Create a Professional Account
• AWS - Set your Region
• AWS - Create a Bucket
• AWS - Create a User
• AWS - Add permissions to the new user
• AWS - Create an Access Key
• AWS - Create a Client Folder
• AWS - Create a USERID Folder
• AWS - Enable CORS
• Submit Information to FilesAnywhere Support
  
  • FilesAnywhere Client ID
  • FilesAnywhere Admin username
  • Provider Type (Azure Blob, Azure Datalake, Azure FileShare, AWS)
  • Bucket Name
  • Region
  • Access Key
  • Secret Access Key

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FilesAnywhere - Create a Professional Account

Before you can sync your AWS Storage, you need to either sign up for a new FilesAnywhere account from our website www.filesanywhere.com or have an existing Professional account.

Note: External Storage Hosting is not available for Business Starter plans.

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AWS - Set your Region

• Sign into your AWS account
• On the far right of the top bar, you'll see a region
• Click on the region and select the region that suits you best.
  

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AWS - Create a Bucket

• Sign into your AWS account
• In the top search bar, type in S3
• Click on S3 in the results
  
• If the site doesn't automatically take you to the Buckets section, click on Buckets on the left navigation.
  
• On the right, under General purpose buckets, cick on the Create bucket button
  
• Enter in a Bucket name
  
• Leave the Object Ownership  and Block all public access defaults
  
  
• Enable Bucket Versioning
  
• Skip Tags and leave the Default encryption defaults
  
• Click on the Create Bucket button at the bottom of the screen
  

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AWS - Create a user

• In the top search bar, type in IAM
• Click on IAM in the search results
  
• On the left navigation, under Access Management, click on Users
  
  
• On the right, in the Users box, click on the Create User button
  
• Under User Details, enter a User Name
• Click on the Next button
  
• Under Set Permissions, leave the default settings as Add user to group
• Click on the Next button
  
• Under Review and Create, review your user settings
• Click on the Create User button
  

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AWS - Add permissions to the new user

• In the Users box, click on the user you just created
  
• Under Permission Policies click on the Add Permissions button
• Then select Add Permissions
  
• Under Permission Options, select Attach policies directly
  
• Under Permission Policies, search for AmazonS3FullAccess
  
• Click the checkbox to the left of the permission
• Click on the Next button
  
• On the Review page, click the Add Permission button
  

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AWS - Create an Access Key

• In the Users box, click on the user you just created if you are not already in the User Summary
  
• Under the User Summary, click on the Security Credentials tab
  
• Under Access Keys, click on the Create access key button
  
• Under Access Key best practicees & alternatives, select Application running outside AWS
• Click the Next button
  
• Under Set Description Tag, click the Create access key button
  
• Under Retrieve Access Keys, copy and save both the Access Key and the Secret Access Key for later
• Note: You will not be able to retrieve your Access Key or Secret Access Key once you navigate away from this screen.
• Click the Done button when finished
  

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AWS - Create a Client Folder

• In the top search bar, type in S3
• Click on S3 in the results
  
• If the site doesn't automatically take you to the Buckets section, click on Buckets on the left navigation.
  
• Under General Purpose Buckets, click on the name of your bucket in the grid below
  
• Under Objects, click on the Create Folder button
  
• Enter your Client ID I.E. 6543 as the folder name
  • Note: Your Client Id will be given to you in your welcome email
• Click on the Create folder button
  

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AWS - Create a USERID Folder

• As the first user is always created with a user id 9 , you will need to create a folder under the Client ID with a value of 9
• Under Objects, click on the name of the Client ID folder
  
• Click on the Create Folder button
  
• Enter the folder name of 9
• Click on the Create Folder button
  

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AWS - Enable CORS

• Under General Purpose Buckets, click on the name of your bucket in the grid below
• Click on the Permissions tab
  
• Scroll down to Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)
• Click on the Edit button on the right
  
  • Copy & Paste the below code block into the text box
    

    [
        {
            "AllowedHeaders": [
                "*"
            ],
            "AllowedMethods": [
                "GET",
                "PUT",
                "POST",
                "DELETE"
            ],
            "AllowedOrigins": [
                "*"
            ],
            "ExposeHeaders": [
                "x-amz-server-side-encryption",
                "x-amz-request-id",
                "x-amz-id-2"
                "Etag"
            ],
            "MaxAgeSeconds": 3000
        }
    ]

• Click the Save Changes button at the bottom
  
  

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Submit Information to FilesAnywhere Support

In order to sync up your external storage with your FilesAnywhere account, please fill out this secure eForm, with the following information.

• FilesAnywhere Client ID
• FilesAnywhere Admin username
• Provider Type (Azure Blob, Azure Datalake, Azure FileShare, AWS)
• Bucket Name
• Region
• Access Key
• Secret Access Key

 

FilesAnywhere Client ID & Admin username

These items are found in your Welcome Email

 

Provider Type (Azure Blob, Azure Datalake, Azure FileShare, AWS)

This was selected when you set up your storage.  The recommended storage type is AWS.

 

Bucket Name & Region

• When viewing your S3 section,
• Click on Buckets on the left navigation.
  
• In the General Purpose Buckets grid you can obtain both the Bucket Name and the Region
  

Access Key & Secret Access Key

Both of these items would have been copied when you followed the steps in the AWS - Create an Access Key section

 

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