How to create an Immutable Policy for Wasabi Bucket

With Wasabi's cloud storage service, you can ensure that your data remains unchanged over time through the use of immutable buckets. In this blog post, we will have video demo to show how to create an immutable policy for a Wasabi bucket. 

Here is text version. Check out the steps to create an immutable policy for a Wasabi bucket. This procedure is done in two stages:

1. Create an immutable policy for a Wasabi bucket.

2. Create a User and Assign Policy to user, generate Access Key and Secret Key.

Stage 1: Create an immutable policy for a Wasabi bucket.

1. After logging into the Wasabi management console. Click on [Policies].

2. Click on [Create Policy]

3. Enter the Policy Name.

4. Open a text editor, i.e., notepad. Use the following template to create a script for a policy to prevent all deletion of data in an assigned bucket.

5. Replace the "BucketName" with the name of the actual bucket name.

6. Copy and paste the script into the Policy Editor. Click on [Create Policy] to continue.

7. The policy is successfully created.

Stage 2: Create a User and Assign Policy to user, generate Access Key and Secret Key

1. Click on [Users].

2. Click on [Create User] to continue.

3. Enter the new username.

4. Select Programmtic (create API key). Click on [Next] to continue.

5. Attach policy to the user. Click on [Next] to continue.

6. Click on [Create User] to continue.

7. After user is created.

8. The Access Key and Secret Key are now created.

9. Click on [Download CSV] to download the key file.