Setting up Amazon FSx for Lustre - FSx for Lustre
Sign up for Amazon Web ServicesAdding permissions to use data repositories in Amazon S3How FSx for Lustre checks access to S3 bucketsNext step
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Setting up Amazon FSx for Lustre

Before you use Amazon FSx for Lustre for the first time, complete the tasks in the Sign up for Amazon Web Services section. To complete the Getting started tutorial, make sure the Amazon S3 bucket that you'll link to your file system has the permissions listed in Adding permissions to use data repositories in Amazon S3.

Sign up for Amazon Web Services

To set up for Amazon, complete the following tasks:

  1. Sign up for an Amazon Web Services account

  2. Secure IAM users

Sign up for an Amazon Web Services account

If you do not have an Amazon Web Services account, use the following procedure to create one.

To sign up for Amazon Web Services

  1. Open http://www.amazonaws.cn/ and choose Sign Up.

  2. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Amazon sends you a confirmation email after the sign-up process is complete. At any time, you can view your current account activity and manage your account by going to http://www.amazonaws.cn/ and choosing My Account.

Secure IAM users

After you sign up for an Amazon Web Services account, safeguard your administrative user by turning on multi-factor authentication (MFA). For instructions, see Enable a virtual MFA device for an IAM user (console) in the IAM User Guide.

To give other users access to your Amazon Web Services account resources, create IAM users. To secure your IAM users, turn on MFA and only give the IAM users the permissions needed to perform their tasks.

For more information about creating and securing IAM users, see the following topics in the IAM User Guide:

Adding permissions to use data repositories in Amazon S3

Amazon FSx for Lustre is deeply integrated with Amazon S3. This integration means that applications that access your FSx for Lustre file system can also seamlessly access the objects stored in your linked Amazon S3 bucket. For more information, see Using data repositories with Amazon FSx for Lustre.

To use data repositories, you must first allow Amazon FSx for Lustre certain IAM permissions in a role associated with the account for your administrator user.

To embed an inline policy for a role using the console

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.amazonaws.cn//iam/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Roles.

  3. In the list, choose the name of the role to embed a policy in.

  4. Choose the Permissions tab.

  5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and choose Add inline policy.

    Note

    You can't embed an inline policy in a service-linked role in IAM. Because the linked service defines whether you can modify the permissions of the role, you might be able to add additional policies from the service console, API, or Amazon CLI. To view the service-linked role documentation for a service, see Amazon Services That Work with IAM and choose Yes in the Service-Linked Role column for your service.

  6. Choose Creating Policies with the Visual Editor

  7. Add the following permissions policy statement.

    {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
            "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
            "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
            "iam:PutRolePolicy"
        ],
        "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/s3.data-source.lustre.fsx.amazonaws.com/*"
    }
}

After you create an inline policy, it is automatically embedded in your role. For more information about service-linked roles, see Using service-linked roles for Amazon FSx.

How FSx for Lustre checks for access to linked S3 buckets

If the IAM role that you use to create the FSx for Lustre file system does not have the iam:AttachRolePolicy and iam:PutRolePolicy permissions, then Amazon FSx checks whether it can update your S3 bucket policy. Amazon FSx can update your bucket policy if the s3:PutBucketPolicy permission is included in your IAM role to allow the Amazon FSx file system to import or export data to your S3 bucket. If allowed to modify the bucket policy, Amazon FSx adds the following permissions to the bucket policy:

  • s3:AbortMultipartUpload

  • s3:DeleteObject

  • s3:PutObject

  • s3:Get*

  • s3:List*

  • s3:PutBucketNotification

  • s3:PutBucketPolicy

  • s3:DeleteBucketPolicy

If Amazon FSx can't modify the bucket policy, it then checks if the existing bucket policy grants Amazon FSx access to the bucket.

If all of these options fail, then the request to create the file system fails. The following diagram illustrates the checks that Amazon FSx follows when determining whether a file system can access the S3 bucket to which it will be linked.

Progression of checks that Amazon FSx uses to determine if it will have permission to import or export data to the S3 bucket to which it will be linked.

Next step

To get started using FSx for Lustre, see Getting started with Amazon FSx for Lustre for instructions to create your Amazon FSx for Lustre resources.