How to Mount AWS S3 Bucket to EC2 with IAM Role

1. Mount AWS S3 Bucket to EC2 with IAM
Role
- Ishant Kumar

2. “Mount AWS S3 Bucket to EC2 with IAM Role”
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and
IT teams with secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage. Amazon
S3 is easy to use, with a simple web services interface to store and
retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web.
Source : http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
 For object storage , we can mount S3 bucket to a particular
directory in AWS EC2.

3. Here are the steps :
Step 1 : Create one IAM Role with policy having appropriate access to
a particular bucket.
For Example : IAM Role name is EC2RoleForS3Access.
Policy attached (having Read/Write Access for bucket “s3bucket-for-
ec2″ ) :

4. {
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": ["s3:ListBucket"],
"Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::s3bucket-for-ec2"]
},
{"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"s3:PutObject",
"s3:GetObject",
"s3:DeleteObject“
],
"Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::s3bucket-for-ec2/*"]
}
]
}

5. Step 2 : Create a EC2 instance with above role.
Select role while EC2 provisioning (Configure instance details) as
mentioned below:

6. Step 3 : Download source for S3fs project FUSE-based file system
backed by Amazon S3 .

7. Step 4 : Untar the file.

8. Step 5 : Install dependencies .

9. Step 6 : Configure the source.

10. Step 7 : Make the Source code.

11. Step 8 : Install the code .

12. Step 9 : Create a directory on which you want to mount S3 Bucket.

13. Step 10 : Mount the directory by specifying IAM Role. Create a file in
order to test the bucket write permission.

14. Step 11 : Check the S3 bucket.

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