This special remote type stores file contents in a bucket in Amazon S3 or a similar service. See [[tips/using_Amazon_S3]], [[tips/Internet_Archive_via_S3]], and [[tips/using_Google_Cloud_Storage]] for usage examples. ## configuration The standard environment variables `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` and `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` are used to supply login credentials for Amazon. You need to set these only when running `git annex initremote`, as they will be cached in a file only you can read inside the local git repository. A number of parameters can be passed to `git annex initremote` to configure the S3 remote. * `encryption` - One of "none", "hybrid", "shared", or "pubkey". See [[encryption]]. * `keyid` - Specifies the gpg key to use for [[encryption]]. * `chunk` - Enables [[chunking]] when storing large files. `chunk=1MiB` is a good starting point for chunking. * `embedcreds` - Optional. Set to "yes" embed the login credentials inside the git repository, which allows other clones to also access them. This is the default when gpg encryption is enabled; the credentials are stored encrypted and only those with the repository's keys can access them. It is not the default when using shared encryption, or no encryption. Think carefully about who can access your repository before using embedcreds without gpg encryption. * `datacenter` - Defaults to "US". Other values include "EU", "us-west-1", "us-west-2", "ap-southeast-1", "ap-southeast-2", and "sa-east-1". * `storageclass` - Default is "STANDARD". Consult S3 provider documentation for pricing details and available storage classes. When using Amazon S3, if you have configured git-annex to preserve multiple [[copies]], consider setting this to "REDUCED_REDUNDANCY" to save money. Or, if the remote will be used for backup or archival, and so its files are Infrequently Accessed, "STANDARD_IA" is also a good choice to save money. Note that changing the storage class of an existing S3 remote will affect new objects sent to the remote, but not objects already stored there. * `host` and `port` - Specify in order to use a different, S3 compatable service. * `bucket` - S3 requires that buckets have a globally unique name, so by default, a bucket name is chosen based on the remote name and UUID. This can be specified to pick a bucket name. * `public` - Set to "yes" to allow public read access to files sent to the S3 remote. This is accomplished by setting an ACL when each file is uploaded to the remote. So, changes to this setting will only affect subseqent uploads. * `publicurl` - Configure the URL that is used to download files from the bucket when they are available publically. (This is automatically configured for Amazon S3 and the Internet Archive.) * `partsize` - Amazon S3 only accepts uploads up to a certian file size, and storing larger files requires a multipart upload process. Setting `partsize=1GiB` is recommended for Amazon S3 when not using chunking; this will cause multipart uploads to be done using parts up to 1GiB in size. Note that setting partsize to less than 100MiB will cause Amazon S3 to reject uploads. This is not enabled by default, since other S3 implementations may not support multipart uploads or have different limits, but can be enabled or changed at any time. * `fileprefix` - By default, git-annex places files in a tree rooted at the top of the S3 bucket. When this is set, it's prefixed to the filenames used. For example, you could set it to "foo/" in one special remote, and to "bar/" in another special remote, and both special remotes could then use the same bucket. * `x-amz-meta-*` are passed through as http headers when storing keys in S3. see [the Internet Archive S3 interface documentation](https://archive.org/help/abouts3.txt) for example headers.