Enabling S3 Storage Using the Command Line

IBM Aspera on Demand can use S3 storage for a node transfer user by specifying the storage in the user docroot. Use this user to transfer files to and from your S3 storage. The steps below assume the following:

You have purchased and booted up your Aspera On Demand product.
You have created an S3 bucket.
You have permissions to create IAM roles or change the policies of your IAM.
You know how to SSH as root to your Aspera On Demand instance.

Connect to your server through SSH, elevate to the root user, and set the S3 docroot using the asconfigurator tool.

# ssh -i identity_file -p 33001 ec2-user@ec2_host_ip
# sudo su -
# asconfigurator -x "set_user_data;user_name,username;absolute,S3://access_id:secret_key@s3.amazonaws.com/bucket_name"

Tip: If you are enabling S3 using IAM roles, use this command instead.

asconfigurator -x "set_user_data;user_name,username; absolute,S3://s3.amazonaws.com/bucket_name"

Restart the Aspera NodeD service.
```
# service asperanoded restart
```
Test your configuration. Perform a test transfer using an Aspera client to the account configured with the S3 docroot. For information on starting a transfer, see Starting a Simple Transfer.