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Object Storage - Use Object Storage with WinSCP

Stephanie R.
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Learn how to configure WinSCP to manage your buckets and objects.

WinSCP is an open-source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client, S3 client, SCP client, and file manager for Windows.

 

Requirements

  • A bucket
  • A user with the required access rights on the bucket
  • Your Object Storage credentials (access_key and secret_access_key; see our Getting started with Object Storage guide)

 

Instructions

Start WinSCP. The login dialog will appear. Fill in the fields as follows:

  1. Make sure the New Site node is selected.

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  2. On the New Site node, select Amazon S3 protocol.

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  3. Enter your endpoint (without https://) corresponding to your storage class and set the Port number field to 443.

    To identify your endpoint corresponding to your storage class, please refer to this guide: Endpoints and Object Storage Geoavailability.

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  4. Enter your user's access_key.

    To respect best practices, please fill in only the Access key ID field at this stage.

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  5. Save your site settings using the Save button.

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  6. Log in using the Login button.

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    Then enter your secret_access_key.

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  7. Once you are connected, you will see a list of your S3 buckets as folders in the root folder.

    NOTE: The Create directory command in the root folder creates a new bucket.

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Go further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other Object Storage support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.

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