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title: "Creating S3 Buckets via VMS"
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updated: 2026-02-18T09:28:26Z
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canonical: "kb.vastdata.com/creating-s3-buckets-via-vms-1"
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# Creating S3 Buckets via VMS

You can create a bucket via VMS by creating a view and enabling S3 Bucket as a protocol. When creating a bucket this way, you specify a user as a bucket owner.

To create an S3 Bucket view, follow the VAST Web UI or VAST CLI procedure in [Creating Views](/documentation/docs/en/creating-views-1) to create a view and make the following settings:

- Select *S3 Bucket* as a protocol.
- Set the name of the bucket if you wish. Otherwise, the view's path will be used as the bucket name.
- Set the bucket owner to the user name of a user that has an entry on a provider such as Active Directory or the VAST provider.
- Optionally, enable S3 features.