This page provides a guide to configuring an Amazon S3 service as a Storage Target in the Verba Recording System.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is storage for the Internet. You can use Amazon S3 to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web. Amazon S3 stores data as objects within buckets.
Buckets are containers for objects. You can have one or more buckets. For each bucket, you can control access to it (who can create, delete, and list objects in the bucket), view access logs for it and its objects, and choose the geographical region where Amazon S3 will store the bucket and its contents.
WORM features are also supported, which allows putting retention or legal hold on the objects created by the system. Default retention is also supported. Versioning is not supported. For more information, see WORM and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lock-overview.html.
For a general description of storage targets, please refer to Storage and export targets.
Please refer to the official guide to configure your service:http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/gsg/GetStartedWithS3.html
Creating an Amazon S3 target
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| Configuration item | Description | ||||||||||||||||
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| Name | Name your storage target. This name will identify this target across the system. | ||||||||||||||||
| Type | Select Amazon S3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Bucket | The name of your Bucket in Amazon S3
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| Region | Region-specific endpoints that Amazon S3 supports. For more information, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#s3_region | ||||||||||||||||
| Enable Object Lock and Legal Hold | Select the checkbox if the object lock feature will be used for retention and legal hold. | ||||||||||||||||
| Object Lock mode | For using the Object Lock feature of Amazon S3 for retention and Legal Hold, it also has to be enabled on the Amazon side. This can be done at the setting of the bucket. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lock.html There are two levels:
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| Addressing Mode | Specifies the used for connecting to the Amazon S3 bucket. For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html Virtual Hosted Style: Changes the HTTP
For example https://bucketname.s3.region.amazonaws.com/key-name Path Style: Sets the bucket in the
For example https://s3.region.amazonaws.com/bucket-name/key-name | ||||||||||||||||
| Access Key Id | Access Key Id of your Amazon S3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Secret Access Key | Secret Access Key of your Amazon S3 |
Step 4 - Click Save to save the settings
Forward proxy configuration
In order to configure a forward proxy for the Amazon S3 connections, follow the steps below:
In the Verba menu, navigate to System / Servers, select the appropriate server, then click on the Change Configuration tab.
On this tab, fill in the configuration under Storage Management / Storage Targets / Amazon S3. See the table below for reference.
| Configuration item | Description |
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| Forward Proxy Address | IP address or FQDN of the forward proxy. When defined, the system will connect through a forward proxy. |
| Forward Proxy Port | The port of the forward proxy |
| Forward Proxy Username | Username for basic authentication for the forward proxy server |
| Forward Proxy Password | Password for basic authentication for the forward proxy server |
TLS connection configuration
By default, Verba uses the server certificate for the TLS connection. Its details can be found under the Server Certificate node in the server configuration.
When needed, a custom certificate can be used instead, and other connection properties can be also changed.
In the Verba menu, navigate to System / Verba Servers, select the appropriate server, then click on the Change Configuration tab.
On this tab, fill in the configuration under Storage Management / Storage Targets / Amazon S3. See the table below for reference.
| Configuration item | Description |
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| Use Https Protocol | Set to yes, if a secure connection should be used |
| Storage Class | Specifies what storage class should be used. Available options: Standard Reduced Redundancy Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) is a new storage option within Amazon S3 that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy than Amazon S3’s standard storage. It provides a cost-effective, highly available solution for distributing or sharing content that is durably stored elsewhere, or for storing thumbnails, transcoded media, or other processed data that can be easily reproduced. |
| Connection Timeout (ms) | Defines the connection timeout value in milliseconds. |
| TLS Key password | Password for the certificate |
| TLS Key file | Path to the certificate Key file |
| TLS Certificate | Path to the certificate |
| TLS CA Certificate | Path to the CA certificate |