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Creating a bucket: mb

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Creating a bucket: mb

We're going to start our CLA journey by making a bucket. Making a bucket in S3 via the CLA is actually very straightforward. You'll notice I've loaded up the Console and I've deleted every bucket that I have. I encourage you to do the same. So we're just looking at an empty list. Go ahead and jump over to the terminal. And the mv command is the command that we're going to use to make a bucket, mv for make bucket. The mv command or make bucket is used to make a bucket in S3. Now, you won't get a lot of the configuration options like we saw on the Console. But we can go ahead and get a bucket to store binary objects. To execute the command, I want you to type aws s3 mb s3 colon slash, slash. Now at this point, you're going to name your bucket. So I'm going to name mine fpmlil0203O. I encourage you to use a name that has a consistent prefix or some other indication so that you can guarantee uniqueness throughout this…

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