- Sign into your AWS console: https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home
- Click on “S3”.
- Click “Create Bucket” and enter a Bucket Name using only alphanumeric characters and no spaces. We recommend prefixing it with your organization’s name, so something like “myorganization-downloads” works well. No other customization is necessary, so then click “Create” to complete the creation process.
- Choose the bucket you just created from the list of buckets to navigate into it.
- Once inside the folder, click “Upload” and upload all the files you want there.
- After your files are done uploading, select them by clicking the square to their left and then choose “Actions” -> “Make Public”. This will make the files publicly accessible.
- To get the public URL of a file, select the file and then click the Properties tab (in the top right of the window). The Link attribute contains the publicly accessible URL of the file.
Some other notes:
- After you’ve created a bucket, it’s only necessary to repeat steps 4-7 to upload additional files.
- If you are uploading a lot of files, you can organize them into folders in your bucket. There a “Create Folder” button next to the “Upload” button.
- It is possible to make files public when you are uploading them by clicking through the detail screens of the upload dialog. If you’re uploading a large quantity of files, this can save you some time.