Setting up Amazon S3 AWS

Amazon S3 can be used by InsiteCommerce to store product images, and documents associated with products. This section provides an overview of the components necessary to set up InsiteCommerce to use Amazon S3.

Visually, the Admin Console will not change. As such, adding content such as images is exactly the same as it is when using a local file system. For more information, see the Local File System user guide article.

Prerequisites

To use Amazon S3 in InsiteCommerce, you must have the following prerequisites:

  • An active Amazon S3 Account
  • Your Amazon S3 Access Key
  • Your Amazon S3 Secret Key
  • The name of the Amazon S3 bucket you wish to use to contain your content

Application settings

The following Application Settings must be set in order to use Amazon S3 as your file store location:

Application Setting Description

StorageProvider

AmazonS3

StorageProvider_AmazonS3_AccessKey

This is an alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies who owns an account. This is analogous to a username.

StorageProvider_AmazonS3_BucketName

This determines the name of the bucket that is being used to hold your content. This is set up through Amazon S3.

StorageProvider_AmazonS3_SecretKey

This is a Password that is paired with the Access Key to form a secure information set that confirms the user's identity

StorageProvider_AmazonS3_ServiceUrl

HTTP://s3.amazonaws.com

Setting Name

Description

Storage Provider

AmazonS3

Once AmazonS3 is selected, the Settings listed below will display.

Access Key

This is an alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies who owns an account. This is analogous to a username.

Bucket Name

This determines the name of the bucket that is being used to hold your content. This is set up through Amazon S3.

Secret Key

This is a Password that is paired with the Access Key to form a secure information set that confirms the user's identity

Custom Domain

HTTPS://s3.amazonaws.com