The following are the requirements for the Amazon storage buckets:

• You can create a maximum of 100 buckets per Amazon account.

• You can delete empty buckets using the Amazon AWS Management Console. However, you may not be able to reuse the names of the deleted buckets while creating buckets in NetBackup.

• You can create buckets in any Amazon storage region that NetBackup supports.

• If the bucket is being used by another user, it is not displayed in the list.

The following are the NetBackup requirements for bucket names in the US Standard region.

• The bucket name must be between 3 and 255 characters.

• Any of the 26 lowercase (small) letters of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Latin-script alphabet. These are the same lowercase (small) letters as the English alphabet.

• Any integer from 0 to 9, inclusive.

• The following character (you cannot use this as the first character in the bucket name):

  Period (.), underscore (_), and dash (-).

  Dash -

  Exception: You cannot use a period (.) if you use SSL for communication. By default, NetBackup uses SSL for communication.

  See NetBackup cloud storage server connection properties.

• If you have created the buckets in a region that NetBackup does not support.

• The bucket name does not comply with the bucket naming convention.

• Given permissions are not sufficient for the bucket. See Permissions required for Amazon S3 cloud provider user.