Create an S3 Interface endpoint

In this section you will create and test an S3 interface endpoint using the simulated on-premises environment deployed as part of this workshop.

  1. Return to the Amazon VPC menu. In the navigation pane, choose Endpoints, then click Create Endpoint.

  2. In Create endpoint console:

  • Name the interface endpoint
  • In Service category, choose aws services

name

  1. In the Search box, type S3 and press Enter. Select the endpoint named com.amazonaws.us-east-1.s3. Ensure that the Type column indicates Interface.

service

  1. For VPC, select VPC Cloud from the drop-down.

    Make sure to choose “VPC Cloud” and not “VPC On-prem”

  • Expand Additional settings and ensure that Enable DNS name is not selected (we will use this in the next part of the workshop)

vpc

  1. Select 2 subnets in the following AZs: us-east-1a and us-east-1b

subnets

  1. For Security group, choose SGforS3Endpoint:

sg

  1. Keep the default policy - full access and click Create endpoint

success

Congratulation on successfully creating S3 interface endpoint. In the next step, we will test the interface endpoint.