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Sample Request: Creating a Bucket
Sample Response: Creating a Bucket
Sample Request: Creating a Bucket (with the ACL and Storage Class Specified)
Sample Response: Creating a Bucket (with the ACL and Storage Class Specified)
Sample Request: Creating a Bucket with Multi-AZ Storage
Sample Response: Creating a Bucket with Multi-AZ Storage
Sample Request: Creating a Parallel File System
Sample Response: Creating a Parallel File System
Sample Request: Creating a Bucket with WORM Enabled
Sample Response: Creating a Bucket with WORM Enabled
Sample Request: Creating a Bucket with Explicitly Configured Access Permissions
Sample Response: Creating a Bucket with Explicitly Configured Access Permissions

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Creating a Bucket

Updated on 2024-09-29 GMT+08:00

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This operation is used to create a bucket with a specified name.

NOTE:

By default, a user can have a maximum of 100 buckets.
The name of a deleted bucket can be reused for a bucket or a parallel file system at least 30 minutes after the deletion.
When creating a bucket in OBS, you can enable the multi-AZ mode for the bucket or disable it. With the multi-AZ mode disabled, data in a bucket is stored in a single AZ by default. With the multi-AZ mode enabled, data in a bucket is stored redundantly in multiple AZs, improving reliability. However, buckets created before are still in the single AZ mode.
You can enable WORM when you create a bucket, but you cannot enable WORM for an existing bucket. In a bucket with WORM enabled, you can further configure retention policies for objects you upload to this bucket. For more information, see Configuring a Default WORM Policy for a Bucket. Once enabled, WORM cannot be disabled for a bucket. When you create a bucket with WORM enabled, OBS automatically enables versioning for the bucket and the versioning cannot be suspended for that bucket. When you create a parallel file system, you cannot enable WORM for it.

A bucket name must be unique in OBS. If a user creates a bucket with the same name as that of an existing bucket under the same account and in the same region, a 200 code (indicating success) is returned. In scenarios other than the preceding one, the request for creating a bucket with the same name as that of an existing one will receive the 409 code (indicating that a namesake bucket already exists). To set an access control policy for the bucket to be created, you can add the x-obs-acl parameter to request headers.

Storage Class

You can create buckets with different storage classes. The x-obs-storage-class header in a bucket creation request specifies the bucket's storage class. If you do not specify a storage class when you upload an object to the bucket, the object inherits the storage class of the bucket. The storage class options are as follows: STANDARD (Standard), WARM (Infrequent Access), COLD (Archive), DEEP_ARCHIVE (Deep Archive). If the x-obs-storage-class header is not in the request, a Standard bucket will be created.

If the storage class of an object is not specified when it is uploaded to a bucket (see Uploading an Object - PUT), the object will be stored in the default storage class of the bucket.

OBS Standard features low access latency and high throughput. It is most suitable for storing frequently accessed (multiple times per month) hot files. Potential application scenarios include big data, mobile applications, trending videos, and social media images.
OBS Infrequent Access is most suitable for storing semi-frequently accessed (less than 12 times a year) data requiring quick response. Potential application scenarios include file synchronization or sharing and enterprise-level backup. It provides the same durability, access latency, and throughput as the Standard but at a lower price. The main drawback, however, is that it has lower availability than the Standard.
OBS Archive is most suitable for archiving rarely-accessed (averagely once a year) data. Potential application scenarios include data archiving and long-term data retention for backup. It provides secure, durable, and inexpensive storage, which can replace tape libraries. However, the low cost comes at the cost of minutes to hours needed to restore data from the Archive storage class.
Deep Archive: The Deep Archive storage class (under limited beta testing) is suitable for storing data that is barely (once every few years) accessed. This storage class costs less than the Archive storage class, but takes longer time (usually several hours) to restore data.

Request Syntax

    
       PUT / HTTP/1.1 
Host: bucketname.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com
Content-Length: length
Date: date
Authorization: authorization
x-obs-az-redundancy: 3az
<CreateBucketConfiguration xmlns="http://obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com/doc/2015-06-30/"> 
 
    <Location>location</Location> 
</CreateBucketConfiguration>

Request Parameters

This request contains no parameters.

Request Headers

The operation message header is the same as that of a common request. For details, see Table 3. However, this request can contain additional headers. The following table describes the additional headers for this request.

**Table 1** Additional request headers
Header	Type	Mandatory (Yes/No)	Description
x-obs-acl	String	No	Explanation: When creating a bucket, you can use this parameter to set a pre-defined ACL. Value range: private: A bucket or an object can be accessed only by its owner. public-read: If this permission is granted on a bucket, anyone can read the object list, multipart uploads, and bucket metadata. public-read-write: If this permission is granted on a bucket, anyone can obtain the object list, multipart tasks, and metadata, and can upload or delete objects, initiate multipart upload tasks, upload parts, assemble parts, copy parts, and cancel multipart upload tasks. public-read-delivered: If this permission is set for a bucket, everyone can obtain the object list, multipart uploads, and bucket metadata in the bucket, and obtain the content and metadata of the objects in the bucket. public-read-delivered: If this permission is set for a bucket, everyone can obtain the object list in the bucket, multipart uploads in the bucket, metadata of the bucket; upload objects; delete objects; initiate multipart uploads; upload parts; assemble parts; copy parts; cancel multipart uploads; obtain content and metadata of objects in the bucket. bucket-owner-full-control: If this permission is granted on an object, only the bucket and object owners have the full control over the object. By default, if you upload an object to a bucket of any other user, the bucket owner does not have the permissions on your object. After you grant this policy to the bucket owner, the bucket owner can have full control over your object. For example, if user A uploads object x to user B's bucket, user B does not have the control over object x. If user A sets the bucket-owner-full-control policy for object x, user B then has the control over object x. Default value: private
x-obs-storage-class	String	No	Explanation: When creating a bucket, you can add this header to set the default storage class for the bucket. Value range: STANDARD (Standard storage) WARM (Infrequent Access storage) COLD (Archive storage) DEEP_ARCHIVE (Deep Archive storage) Default value: STANDARD
x-obs-grant-read	String	No	Explanation: Grants the read permission to all users in a specified domain. It allows you to list objects in a bucket, list multipart tasks in a bucket, list multi-version objects in a bucket, and obtain bucket metadata. Example: x-obs-grant-read:id=tenant-ID Restrictions: None Value range: id=tenant-ID. For details, see Obtaining Account, IAM User, Project, User Group, Region, and Agency Information. Default value: None
x-obs-grant-write	String	No	Explanation: Grants the WRITE permission to all users in a specified domain to create, delete, and overwrite all objects in a bucket; and initiate multipart uploads, upload parts, copy parts, assemble parts, and cancel multipart uploads. Example: x-obs-grant-write:id=tenant-ID Restrictions: None Value range: id=tenant-ID. For details, see Obtaining Account, IAM User, Project, User Group, Region, and Agency Information. Default value: None
x-obs-grant-read-acp	String	No	Explanation: Grant the READ_ACP permission to all users in a specified domain to allow them to read the bucket ACL. Example: x-obs-grant-read-acp:id=Account ID Restrictions: None Value range: id=tenant-ID. For details, see Obtaining Account, IAM User, Project, User Group, Region, and Agency Information. Default value: None
x-obs-grant-write-acp	String	No	Explanation: Grants the WRITE_ACP permission to all users in a specified domain to allow them to modify the bucket ACL. Example: x-obs-grant-write-acp:id=Account ID Restrictions: None Value range: id=tenant-ID. For details, see Obtaining Account, IAM User, Project, User Group, Region, and Agency Information. Default value: None
x-obs-grant-full-control	String	No	Explanation: Grants the FULL_CONTROL permission to all users in a specified domain. Example: x-obs-grant-full-control:id=tenant-ID Restrictions: None Value range: id=tenant-ID. For details, see Obtaining Account, IAM User, Project, User Group, Region, and Agency Information. Default value: None
x-obs-grant-read-delivered	String	No	Explanation: Grants the READ permission to all users in a specified domain. By default, the read permission is granted on all objects in the bucket. Example: x-obs-grant-read-delivered:id=tenant-ID Restrictions: None Value range: id=tenant-ID. For details, see Obtaining Account, IAM User, Project, User Group, Region, and Agency Information. Default value: None
x-obs-grant-full-control-delivered	String	No	Explanation: Grants the FULL_CONTROL permission to all users in a specified domain. By default, the FULL_CONTROL permission is granted on all objects in the bucket. Example: x-obs-grant-full-control-delivered:id=tenant-ID Restrictions: None Value range: id=tenant-ID. For details, see Obtaining Account, IAM User, Project, User Group, Region, and Agency Information. Default value: None
x-obs-az-redundancy	String	No	Explanation: If this header is carried when a bucket is created, the storage class of the bucket is set to multi-AZ. Otherwise, the storage class of the bucket is set to single-AZ. Example: x-obs-az-redundancy:3az Restrictions: This header is carried to specify that a newly created bucket uses multi-AZ storage. If the region where the bucket resides does not support multi-AZ storage, the bucket still uses the single-AZ storage. Value range: 3az Default value: If the header is specified, the value must be 3az. There is no default value. Otherwise, single AZ is used by default.
x-obs-fs-file-interface	String	No	Explanation: This header can be carried when you want to create a parallel file system. Example: x-obs-fs-file-interface:Enabled Value range: Enabled Default value: If the header is specified, the value must be Enabled. There is no default value.
x-obs-epid	String	No	Explanation: Enterprise project ID. Users who have enabled the enterprise project function can obtain this ID in UUID format from the enterprise project service. The default project ID is 0. This header can be not included. This header is not required for users who have not enabled the enterprise project function. Example: x-obs-epid:9892d768-2d13-450f-aac7-ed0e44c2585f Restrictions: None Value range: The value can be 0 or your actual enterprise project ID. Default value: 0
x-obs-bucket-type	String	No	Explanation: You can add this header to specify what type of bucket you will create. You can choose to create a bucket or a parallel file system. Example: x-obs-bucket-type:OBJECT Restrictions: None Value range: OBJECT: a bucket POSIX: a parallel file system. Default value: If the header is specified, the value must be manually entered. There is no default value. If the header is not specified, OBJECT is used by default.
x-obs-bucket-object-lock-enabled	String	No	Explanation: When creating a bucket, you can use this header to enable WORM for the bucket. Example: x-obs-bucket-object-lock-enabled:true Restrictions: Only object buckets are supported. Value range: true: WORM is enabled. false: WORM is disabled. Default value: If the header is specified, the value must be true. There is no default value. If the header is not specified, the function is disabled.
x-obs-server-side-encryption	String	No	Explanation: When creating a bucket, you can use this header to specify an encryption method for the bucket. Example: x-obs-server-side-encryption: kms Restrictions: None Value range: kms obs Default value: If the header is specified, the value must be manually entered. There is no default value. If the header is not specified, bucket encryption is disabled.
x-obs-server-side-data-encryption	String	No	Explanation: When creating a bucket, you can use this header to specify an encryption algorithm for server-side encryption. Example: x-obs-server-side-data-encryption: AES256 Restrictions: None Value range: AES256 You can set this header to AES256 if x-obs-server-side-encryption:kms is used. You can set this header to AES256 if x-obs-server-side-encryption:obs is used. Default value: None
x-obs-server-side-encryption-kms-key-id	String	No if x-obs-server-side-encryption:kms is used.	Explanation: ID of a specified key used for SSE-KMS encryption. For details about how to obtain a key ID, see Viewing a Key. Type: string Restrictions: This header can only be used when you specify kms for the x-obs-server-side-encryption header. Default value: If you specify kms for encryption but do not specify a key ID, the default master key will be used. If there is not a default master key, OBS will create one and use it.
x-obs-sse-kms-key-project-id	String	This parameter can be used only when x-obs-server-side-encryption-kms-key-id is included.	Explanation: ID of the project (not an enterprise project) where the KMS CMK belongs when SSE-KMS is used Restrictions: None Value range: A project ID (not an enterprise project ID) that matches the KMSMasterKeyID specified by x-obs-server-side-encryption-kms-key-id Default value: None

Request Elements

This request can use additional elements. For details about additional elements, see Table 2.

**Table 2** Additional request elements
Element	Type	Mandatory (Yes/No)	Description
Location	String	No	Explanation: Specifies the region where a bucket will be created. When the endpoint of the CN North-Beijing1 region is used for bucket creation: if location is not included, the bucket will be created in CN North-Beijing1 (cn-north-1) by default. if another region, for example, CN-Hong Kong (ap-southeast-1), is specified for location, the bucket will be created in the CN-Hong Kong region. When the endpoint of a region other than CN North-Beijing1 is used for bucket creation, location must be set to the region that the used endpoint corresponds to. For example, if obs.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com is used, you must set location to ap-southeast-1. Restrictions: If the used endpoint is obs.myhuaweicloud.com, this parameter is not required. If any other endpoint is used, this parameter is required. Value range: For details about OBS regions and endpoints, see Regions and Endpoints. Default value: If obs.myhuaweicloud.com is used as the endpoint and no region is specified, cn-north-1 (the CN North-Beijing1 region) is used by default.

Response Syntax

    
       HTTP/1.1 status_code
Location: location
Date: date
Content-Length: length

Response Headers

The response to the request uses common headers. For details, see Table 1.

Response Elements

This response contains no elements.

Error Responses

No special error responses are returned. For details about error responses, see Table 2.

Sample Request: Creating a Bucket

    
       PUT / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:25:05 GMT
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:75/Y4Ng1izvzc1nTGxpMXTE6ynw=
Content-Length: 157

<CreateBucketConfiguration xmlns="http://obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com/doc/2015-06-30/"> 
    <Location>region</Location>
</CreateBucketConfiguration>

Sample Response: Creating a Bucket

    
       HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: BF260000016435CE298386946AE4C482
Location: /examplebucket
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABSAAgAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCT9W2tcvLmMJ+plfdopaD62S0npbaRUz
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:25:06 GMT
Content-Length: 0

Sample Request: Creating a Bucket (with the ACL and Storage Class Specified)

    
       PUT / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:25:05 GMT
x-obs-acl:public-read
x-obs-storage-class:STANDARD
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:75/Y4Ng1izvzc1nTGxpMXTE6ynw=
Content-Length: 157

<CreateBucketConfiguration xmlns="http://obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com/doc/2015-06-30/"> 
    <Location>region</Location> 
</CreateBucketConfiguration>

Sample Response: Creating a Bucket (with the ACL and Storage Class Specified)

    
       HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: BF260000016435CE298386946AE4C482
Location: /examplebucket
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABSAAgAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCT9W2tcvLmMJ+plfdopaD62S0npbaRUz
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:25:06 GMT
Content-Length: 0

Sample Request: Creating a Bucket with Multi-AZ Storage

    
       PUT / HTTP/1.1 
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com
Content-Length: length 
Date: date 
Authorization: authorization 
x-obs-az-redundancy:3az 
<CreateBucketConfiguration xmlns="http://obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com/doc/2015-06-30/"> 
 <Location>region</Location> 
</CreateBucketConfiguration>

Sample Response: Creating a Bucket with Multi-AZ Storage

    
       HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
Server: OBS 
x-obs-request-id: BF260000016435CE298386946AE4C482 
Location: /examplebucket 
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABSAAgAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCT9W2tcvLmMJ+plfdopaD62S0npbaRUz 
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:25:06 GMT 
Content-Length: 0

Sample Request: Creating a Parallel File System

    
       PUT / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:25:05 GMT
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:75/Y4Ng1izvzc1nTGxpMXTE6ynw=
Content-Length: 157
x-obs-fs-file-interface: Enabled

<CreateBucketConfiguration xmlns="http://obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com/doc/2015-06-30/"> 
<Location>region</Location> 
</CreateBucketConfiguration>

Sample Response: Creating a Parallel File System

    
       HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: BF260000016435CE298386946AE4C482
Location: /examplebucket
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABSAAgAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCT9W2tcvLmMJ+plfdopaD62S0npbaRUz
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:25:06 GMT
Content-Length: 0

Sample Request: Creating a Bucket with WORM Enabled

PUT / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:25:05 GMT
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:75/Y4Ng1izvzc1nTGxpMXTE6ynw=
x-obs-bucket-object-lock-enabled:true
Content-Length: 0

Sample Response: Creating a Bucket with WORM Enabled

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: 00000184C11AC7A6809F881341842C02
x-reserved-indicator: Unauthorized
Location: /examplebucket
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABSAAgAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCT9W2tcvLmMJ+plfdopaD62S0npbaRUz
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:25:06 GMT
Content-Length: 0

Sample Request: Creating a Bucket with Explicitly Configured Access Permissions

PUT / HTTP/1.1
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:iqSPeUBl66PwXDApxjRKk6hlcN4=
x-obs-grant-read: id=783fc6vz2cf2442c096evxxxxxxxxxxxx
x-obs-grant-write: id=3u3fc6vz2cf24mc830fhsxxxxxxxxxxxx
x-obs-grant-read-acp: id=902su2vz2cf2vire.239caxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:37:22 GMT
Content-Type: application/xml
 
<CreateBucketConfiguration  xmlns="http://obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com/doc/2015-06-30/">
    <Location>region</Location>
</CreateBucketConfiguration>

Sample Response: Creating a Bucket with Explicitly Configured Access Permissions

x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCTeau73DlKTh4wPYzoZf5w3KacolerP4
x-obs-request-id: 0000018A2A22B72447CF01A99F32E2B0
Server: OBS
Content-Length: 0
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:37:22 GMT
Location: /examplebucket

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