How to link to imgix to Amazon S3 | Scribe

How to link to imgix to Amazon S3

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👤 Create an AWS IAM User for imgix

Start by visiting the Amazon Web Services's (AWS) IAM dashboard, [console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home](http://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home).
Use the left-hand sidebar to navigate to the "Users" page.
Select the "Add users" button.
You will be redirected to the "Create user" flow.
For Step #1, you’re going to want to give your user a descriptive name, appropriate for your use case. We’ll be calling our’s “imgix-example”.
Select the "Next" button to proceed onto Step #2.
Now you will be prompted to set the permissions for your IAM User. imgix only requires Read permissions to serve your media.
If your company requires an additional layer of security, you can create your own restricted permissions policy. At minimum, imgix requires the read-only permissions `ListBucket`, `GetBucketLocation` and `GetObject` to serve your assets. With a restricted policy, you can also define which specific S3 bucket(s) imgix can have access to. Please visit our documentation, [docs.imgix.com/setup/creating-sources/amazon-s3#security](http://docs.imgix.com/setup/creating-sources/amazon-s3#security), for more information regarding this advanced flow. In this tutorial, we’ll be keeping it simple and attaching a pre-existing, read-only Amazon policy template.
Select the “Attach Policies Directly” option.
Search "AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess," no spaces. The Amazon S3 Read Only Access policy template provides the best mix of ease, protection, and imgix feature future-proofing.
Check the "AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess" policy.
Select the "Next" button to proceed onto Step #3.
Take a moment to review your imgix IAM User selections.
If everything looks correct, go ahead and create your user.
You will be redirected back to the Users page.

🔐 Create Access Keys for imgix

We’re halfway there! Now, we need to set up your Access Key and Secret Key credentials for this user. Start by selecting the "View user" button in the notification banner to navigate to your imgix User’s page.
Select the “Security Credentials” tab.
Scroll until you see the section titled “Access keys," then select the "Create access key" button.
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