Creating an S3 Bucket

Octet writes the output of transcoding jobs to a user-provided S3 bucket.

This guide shows how to create an S3 bucket along with an IAM user that gives Octet write access to the bucket.

First, let's create a bucket using the AWS CLI:

Then we need to give Octet access to the bucket

The last command shouild return something like

Make a note of the SecretAccessKey and the AccessKeyId. You'll provide these to Octet when creating a transcoding job.