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Bucket naming rules

The following rules apply for naming buckets in vault56 cloud storage

  • Bucket names must be between 3 and 63 characters long

  • Bucket names can consist of only lowercase letters, numbers, dots (.), and hyphens (-)

  • Bucket names must begin and end with a letter or number

  • Bucket names cannot contain two adjacent periods (.)

  • Bucket names cannot be formatted as an IP address

  • Bucket names cannot start with the prefix xn--

  • Bucket names cannot end with the suffix -s3alias

  • Bucket names must be unique across all vault56 cloud storage accounts (including accounts that you do not control)

  • A bucket name cannot be used by another vault56 account until it is deleted

  • We recommend that you do not use dots (.) in your bucket names

Example bucket names

The following example bucket names are valid names and follow our recommended naming conventions:

  • examplebucket

  • images-from-april-2021

  • documents-for-deliveries

The following example bucket names are valid but not recommended:

  • mywebsite.com

  • files.mywebsite.com

  • an.example.bucket

The following example buckets are not valid:

  • my_example_documents (contains underscores)

  • MyExampleDocuments (contains uppercase letters)

  • my-example-documents- (ends with a hyphen)