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once your S3 storage (basket) is created, you may obtain its URL from its Proprrties. use the URL in your EC2 instance to access the data.
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once your S3 storage (basket) is created, you may obtain its URL from its Proprrties. use the URL in your EC2 instance to access the data.

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Can I add it like a shared drive?
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To do this you need to set up a WebDav server or software that mounts S3 as a drive. <br />
Two I know of on Windows:<br />
CloudBerry Drive <a href="http://www.cloudberrylab.com" rel="ugc">http://www.cloudberrylab.com</a><br />
WebDrive <a href="http://webdrive.com" rel="ugc">http://webdrive.com</a><br />
For Linux you can try <a href="https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse" rel="ugc">https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse</a>
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To do this you need to set up a WebDav server or software that mounts S3 as a drive.
Two I know of on Windows:
CloudBerry Drive http://www.cloudberrylab.com [http://www.cloudberrylab.com]
WebDrive http://webdrive.com [http://webdrive.com]
For Linux you can try https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse [https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse]

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ok, thanks; &nbsp;also, can I just make it accessible to the ec2 instance?
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ok, thanks;  also, can I just make it accessible to the ec2 instance?

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Sure, you need a IAM role for that.<br />
<a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html" rel="ugc">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html</a>
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Sure, you need a IAM role for that.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html]

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and I also need to use one of those tools above?
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and I also need to use one of those tools above?

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thanks; &nbsp;what powershell command do I use to test? &nbsp;I have googled, but not sure an easy way
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thanks;  what powershell command do I use to test?  I have googled, but not sure an easy way

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How can I connect a Windows EC2 instance to S3 to be used more as a file share drive?
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How can I connect a Windows EC2 instance to S3 to be used more as a file share drive?

EC2 and S3

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform  operated from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Other services include Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Route 53 (a DNS web service),  provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), storage, database, deployment and application services.

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