Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

CreateContainer

Important

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Creates a storage container to hold objects. A container is similar to a bucket in the Amazon S3 service.

Request Syntax


{
   "ContainerName": "string",
   "Tags": [ 
      { 
         "Key": "string",
         "Value": "string"
      }
   ]
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

ContainerName

The name for the container. The name must be from 1 to 255 characters. Container names must be unique to your AWS account within a specific region. As an example, you could create a container named movies in every region, as long as you don’t have an existing container with that name.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\w-]+

Required: Yes

Tags

An array of key:value pairs that you define. These values can be anything that you want. Typically, the tag key represents a category (such as "environment") and the tag value represents a specific value within that category (such as "test," "development," or "production"). You can add up to 50 tags to each container. For more information about tagging, including naming and usage conventions, see Tagging Resources in MediaStore.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 200 items.

Required: No

Response Syntax


{
   "Container": { 
      "AccessLoggingEnabled": boolean,
      "ARN": "string",
      "CreationTime": number,
      "Endpoint": "string",
      "Name": "string",
      "Status": "string"
   }
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Container

ContainerARN: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the newly created container. The ARN has the following format: arn:aws:<region>:<account that owns this container>:container/<name of container>. For example: arn:aws:mediastore:us-west-2:111122223333:container/movies

ContainerName: The container name as specified in the request.

CreationTime: Unix time stamp.

Status: The status of container creation or deletion. The status is one of the following: CREATING, ACTIVE, or DELETING. While the service is creating the container, the status is CREATING. When an endpoint is available, the status changes to ACTIVE.

The return value does not include the container's endpoint. To make downstream requests, you must obtain this value by using DescribeContainer or ListContainers.

Type: Container object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

ContainerInUseException

The container that you specified in the request already exists or is being updated.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServerError

The service is temporarily unavailable.

HTTP Status Code: 500

LimitExceededException

A service limit has been exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example Request

The following example shows how to create a container with the name movies:



POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: mediastore.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
x-amz-Date: 20170323T120000Z
x-amz-target:ElementalMediaStoreService_20160711.CreateContainer
content-type:application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length:30
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 
  Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20141123/us-west-2/mediastore/aws4_request,
  SignedHeaders=host;x-amz-date;x-amz-mediastore-version,
  Signature=9257c16da6b25a715ce900a5b45b03da0447acf430195dcb540091b12966f2a2
{
  "ContainerName": "movies",
}

Example Response

This example illustrates one usage of CreateContainer.


HTTP/1.1
{
"Container": 
  {
    "ContainerARN": "arn:aws:mediastore:us-west-2:111122223333:container/movies"
    "ContainerName": "movies"
    "CreationTime": "1491522511.486",
    "Status": "CREATING"
}