# Snapshot to S3
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-to-s3/17029
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 15, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-to-s3/17029 "2014-04-15T15:26:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Bastien\_Chong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bastien_Chong)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-to-s3/17029/1 "2014-04-15T15:26:38Z")
I'm trying to setup S3 backup with Elasticsearch 1.1.0 new snapshot feature.
For that I installed the cloud-aws plugin
> **[GitHub - elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-aws: AWS Cloud Plugin for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-aws#s3-repository)**
>
> AWS Cloud Plugin for Elasticsearch. Contribute to elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-aws development by creating an account on GitHub.
I followed this instruction by adding my bucket like that :
curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/\_snapshot/mybucket](http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/mybucket)' -d '{
> ```
> "type": "s3",
> "settings": {
> "bucket": "mybucket",
> "region": "us-west-2"
> }
>
> ```
>
> }'
And in\* elasticsearch.yml\* :
cloud:
> ```
> aws:
> access_key: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> secret_key: xxxxxxxxxx
> region: us-west-2
>
> ```
>
> repositories:
> s3:
> region: us-west-2
> private-bucket:
> bucket: mybucket
> access\_key: yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
> secret\_key: yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
When I try to create the snapshot : curl -s -XPUT
"localhost:9200/\_snapshot/mybucket/snapshot\_2?wait\_for\_completion=true"
I get : {"error":"SnapshotCreationException[[mybucket:snapshot\_2] failed to
create snapshot]; nested: IOException[Failed to get [snapshot-snapshot\_2]];
nested: AmazonS3Exception[Status Code: 403, AWS Service: Amazon S3, AWS
Request ID: xxxxxxxx, AWS Error Code: AccessDenied, AWS Error Message:
Access Denied]; ","status":500}
My default access/secret key does not have access to this bucket, so I have
to use private-bucket. But I don't know how to make this work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-to-s3/17029/2 "2017-07-06T01:35:43Z")