# Error 503 while trying to create a S3 snapshot repo

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-503-while-trying-to-create-a-s3-snapshot-repo/153831>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 24, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-503-while-trying-to-create-a-s3-snapshot-repo/153831 "2018-10-24T14:33:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![dr01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dr01/32/8482_2.png) [@dr01](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dr01)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-503-while-trying-to-create-a-s3-snapshot-repo/153831/1 "2018-10-24T14:33:41Z")

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I get a HTTP 503 error whenever I try to create a snapshot repository on an Amazon S3 bucket:

```
[root@myserver ~]# curl -XPUT 'https://myes.example.org:9200/_snapshot/s3_repository' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '
{
  "type": "s3",
  "settings": { "bucket": "mybucket/elk" }
}'

{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"process_cluster_event_timeout_exception","reason":"failed to process cluster event (put_repository [s3_repository]) within 30s"}],"type":"process_cluster_event_timeout_exception","reason":"failed to process cluster event (put_repository [s3_repository]) within 30s"},"status":503}

```

However, the S3 bucket is reachable from my server:

```
[root@myserver ~]# aws s3 cp testfile s3://mybucket/elk/ --sse AES256
upload: ./testfile to s3://mybucket/elk/testfile 

```

Is there some error in the curl command, perhaps?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-503-while-trying-to-create-a-s3-snapshot-repo/153831/2 "2018-11-21T14:36:21Z")

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