Using Amazon S3 for storing attachments can help offload storage from your OmniChat server, providing scalability and reliability. Follow these steps to configure Amazon S3 with OmniChat.
Amazon S3 #
Upload attachments to your Amazon S3 bucket instead of the server where OmniChat is installed. Follow the steps below to set it up.
- Log in to AWS as the root user from https://aws.amazon.com/.
- Enter the IAM dashboard and click Left menu > Access management > Users.
- Click Add new user, enter the username and continue.
- Select Add user to group and on the User groups section below click Create group. In Permissions policies search for AmazonS3FullAccess and select it. Click Create user group.
- Assign the new group to the user you are creating and continue, then click Create user.
- Select the newly created user and open the Security credentials tab.
- In the Access keys area, click Create access key and select Application running outside AWS. Continue until you get the keys and save them in OmniChat > Settings > Miscellaneous > Amazon S3.
- Visit the Amazon S3 dashboard and click Create bucket.
- Set the bucket name and region you want. Save the region and name in OmniChat > Settings > Miscellaneous > Amazon S3. Check ACLs enabled and Bucket owner preferred. Uncheck Block all public access and all related checkboxes.
- Click Create bucket.
- This feature is technical and optional. Support does not cover any help related to this feature.
- Be aware that it may take up to 24 hours for a newly created bucket to become active. If you have recently created an S3 bucket and it is not working, wait for 24 hours and try again.
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