What are the rules for naming buckets?

Choose a bucket name that reflects the objects you will store in that bucket as it is visible in the URL. In addition to this best practice, there are a few rules to be considered when naming buckets:

• It must be unique across existing bucket names at Impossible Cloud Storage

• It must be between 3 and 63 characters long

• It can contain only lowercase characters, numbers, hyphens and dots

• It must begin and end with a letter or number

• It cannot contain the following:

  • Consecutive dots

  • Adjacent dots

  • Adjacent hyphens and dots

  • Entire name formatted as an IP address - e.g., 192.168.1.1

  • xn-- as a prefix

  • -s3alias as a suffix

Valid name examples - unless already used - are: 'sales-archive' or '20230101-sales-material'.