This guide provides documentation for AWS Wickr. For Wickr Enterprise, which is the on-premises version of Wickr, see Enterprise Administration Guide.
To configure data retention for your AWS Wickr network, you must deploy the data retention bot Docker image to a container on a host, such as a local computer or an instance in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). After the bot is deployed, you can configure it to store data locally or in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. You can also configure the data retention bot to use other AWS services like AWS Secrets Manager (Secrets Manager), Amazon CloudWatch (CloudWatch), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). The following topics describe how to configure and run the data retention bot for your Wickr network.
Prerequisites to configure data retention
for AWS Wickr
Before you get started, you must get the data retention bot name (labeled as Username) and initial password from the AWS Management Console for Wickr. You must specify both of these values the first time you start the data retention bot. You must also enable data retention in the console. For more information, see View data retention details in AWS Wickr.
