Postman AWS S3 snapshot request Elasticsearch

Question

Hello I need some help with sending a PUT request to my ElasticSearch on AWS to create a snapshot in a S3 bucket, with POSTMAN.

I have created a S3 bucket called cb-search-es-backup. I've created a role, and a policy for S3 (see:this post of mine for the steps I've taken).

REQUEST URL https://myelasticsearchendpoint.eu-west-1.es.amazonaws.com/

REQUEST METHOD: PUT

BODY : RAW / json

{
 "type": "s3",
    "settings": {
        "bucket": "cb-search-es-backup",  // my bucketname
        "region": "eu-west-1", // region
        "role_arn": "arn:aws:iam::12345676890:role/Role_ES_TO_S3" // my role arn
   }
 }

I've also tried the authorization type: 'AWS Signature', with access and secret key filled in.

Added an answer, looks like the problem in your other question is the same - not passing the credentials. — Nikolay Vasiliev

Nikolay Vasiliev Nikolay Vasiliev · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-07T19:26:26

It looks like you are not passing AWS credentials with this request.

There is a detailed guide how to make a Postman request with AWS authentication here: Use Postman to Call an API.

Your Postman window might look like this:

To do the same from python please check out Sample python client section of this documentation page, note that AWS4Auth object is created and it's passed as auth parameter to requests.put():

credentials = boto3.Session().get_credentials()
awsauth = AWS4Auth(credentials.access_key, credentials.secret_key, region, service, session_token=credentials.token)

# Register repository

path = '_snapshot/my-snapshot-repo' # the Elasticsearch API endpoint
url = host + path

payload = {
  ...
}

headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

r = requests.put(url, auth=awsauth, json=payload, headers=headers)

Hope that helps!

Postman AWS S3 snapshot request Elasticsearch

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