Amazon S3
Both Standard and Standard - IA storage is supported. Refer to AWS documentation for the differences between these storage types.
Bucket Name – The unique name of the Amazon S3 bucket that you want to add as a storage node.
Use Access and Secret Keys – Use Amazon S3 access credentials for the storage node.
Access Key ID – The Amazon S3 access key ID.
Secret Access Key – The Amazon S3 secret access key.
Use AWS IAM Role Policy – When the portal is also running as an AWS EC2 instance, you can define an IAM policy and then assign this policy to an EC2 role which is then attached to the portal instance, via Instance Settings > Attach/Replace IAM Role in the AWS Management Console. If you set up this type of policy, you do not need to specify the Access and Secret keys to access the storage node. For an example IAM policy, refer to the section Manually Installing the CTERA Main Portal Server in the CTERA Portal Installation and Maintenance Guide for Amazon EC2.
Endpoint – The endpoint name of the S3 service. The default value for Amazon S3 is s3.amazonaws.com. Normally, this value should not be changed.
Use HTTPS – Use HTTPS to connect with the storage node.
Trust all certificates – Trust any security certificate installed in the CTERA Portal.
Direct Mode – Data is uploaded directly to the storage node and not via the portal.
Note: Once direct mode is set, the Use HTTPS option is also checked and cannot be unchecked.
Add Metadata Tags – Use custom metadata to support information lifecycle management rules (ILM) on the storage node. Checking Add Metadata Tags implements the ILM, enabling storage tiering so that data can be routed across different object storages.