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[ aws . s3 ]

mb

Description

Creates an S3 bucket.

See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  mb
<S3Uri>

Options

path (string)

See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

The following mb command creates a bucket. In this example, the user makes the bucket mybucket. The bucket is created in the region specified in the user's configuration file:

aws s3 mb s3://mybucket

Output:

make_bucket: s3://mybucket

The following mb command creates a bucket in a region specified by the --region parameter. In this example, the user makes the bucket mybucket in the region us-west-1:

aws s3 mb s3://mybucket --region us-west-1

Output:

make_bucket: s3://mybucket