Step 3: Create an Amazon S3 bucket for the data lake
Create the Amazon S3 bucket that is to be the root location of your data lake.
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Open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/
and sign in as the administrator user that you created in Create a user with administrative access. -
Choose Create bucket, and go through the wizard to create a bucket named
, where<yourName>
-datalake-cloudtrail<yourName>
is your first initial and last name. For example:jdoe-datalake-cloudtrail
.For detailed instructions on creating an Amazon S3 bucket, see Creating a bucket.