Buckets

A Bucket is essentially the root container that you create to store your data. The data that is stored in buckets is called Objects. You can create multiple paths in the bucket and store an unlimited amount of objects. The navigation on these paths is quite similar to a conventional directory structure.

Ideal Practices to Name a Bucket

The bucket’s name will act as the domain name in the Bucket URL. Therefore, it is mandatory that you create a Bucket with a name that is globally unique with respect to your DC and not only unique to your Catalyst projects or your account.

Here are a few naming practices to be mindful of while naming your bucket:

• The bucket name should contain a minimum of 3 characters and a maximum of 50 characters. It can only consist of alphanumeric characters. No special characters apart from hyphen “-” is allowed.

• While the special character hyphen “-” is permitted to be used to name your buckets, you cannot start or end your bucket name with a hyphen.

• You cannot end your bucket name with the suffix -development.

• You are not permitted to name your bucket starting with the reserved keyword: x-zc-. However, this sequence of characters can be used in between to name your bucket.

• Avoid using uppercase characters to name your bucket.

• It is strongly urged that you do not use personally identifiable information, such as part of your name or ID number, to name your bucket.

• It is strongly urged that you do not name your bucket with names or terms that are identifiable to popular brands with which you have no association or authorization to use.

• Bucket name cannot contain any notations of IP addresses or in the dot-decimal, snake case formats.

Examples of Valid Bucket Names:

• xyz2-bucket
• sto123rage-supreme
• enterprise-trek