Your account is not signed-up for Amazon S3

We continue our series of articles devoted to common Amazon S3 issues. In our previous article we discussed the difference between the requested time and the current time is too large error.

In this article we will discuss how to handle Your account is not signed up for Amazon S3 issue. This error occurs when you are surprisingly enough… not signed up for Amazon S3. Apparently, there is a two steps process to get an Amazon S3 account. First you have to create an Amazon account

Second, you have to sign up to each service separately. Go to http://aws.amazon.com/s3 and click large Sign Up for Amazon S3 button.

We described the sign-up process in details at http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2009/02/how-to-sign-up-for-amazon-s3-service.html

How to verify if my account is signed up for a service?

The best way to verify if you are in fact signed-up for the service is to go to Your Account. This is the top right link on the AWS website. Choose Account Activity in pop-up menu.

Then you should see the list of the services you are signed up for.

If you don’t see Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the list you are not signed up for it.

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