Chatwoot/docs/development/project-setup/storage/s3-bucket.md
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---
path: "/docs/configuring-s3-bucket-as-cloud-storage"
title: "Configuring Cloud Storage"
---
### Using Amazon S3
You can get started with [Creating an S3 bucket](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/gsg/CreatingABucket.html) and [Create an IAM user](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_users_create.html) to configure the following details.
Configure the following env variables.
```bash
ACTIVE_STORAGE_SERVICE='amazon'
S3_BUCKET_NAME=
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_REGION=
```
### S3 Bucket policy
Inorder to use S3 bucket in Chatwoot, a policy has to be set with the correct credentials. A sample policy is given below, as the listed actions are required for the storage to work.
```json
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Id": "Policyxxx",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "Stmtxxx",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "your-user-arn"
},
"Action": [
"s3:DeleteObject",
"s3:GetObject",
"s3:ListBucket",
"s3:PutObject"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:s3:::your-bucket-name",
"arn:aws:s3:::your-bucket-name/*"
]
}
]
}
```
Replace your *bucket name* in the appropriate places.
**User ARN** can be found using the following steps:
1. Login to AWS Console. Go to IAM, and click on Users from the left sidebar. You will be to see the list of users as follows.
![s3-users-list](./images/s3-users-list.png)
2. Click on the user, you will be to see a screen as shown below. Copy the User ARN and paste it in the above policy.
![user-arn](./images/user-arn.png)