# Exoscale

Steps to connect your Exoscale storage to SimpleBackups

## How to Connect your Exoscale Bucket to SimpleBackups

### 1. Create your Exoscale Bucket

- Sign in to your Exoscale account at [https://portal.exoscale.com/login](https://portal.exoscale.com/login)
- Navigate to "Object Storage" and click on **"Add"**
- **Name** your bucket

![Exoscale screenshot 1](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/000b29b4880e601187b5.png)

- Select the **zone** for your bucket.

![Exoscale screenshot 2](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/f45cff1b89ca4eeab02a.png)

### 2. Create your Exoscale credentials

You'll now need to create Exoscale credentials that will be used to connect to you newly created storage from SimpleBackups.

- Click on **"IAM"** on the left menu and then **"Add"** on the top right

![Exoscale screenshot 3](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/765b88f587a678c1a4b5.png)

- Create a new Key

![Exoscale screenshot 4](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/63852dbfa7dfabaa0557.png)

![Exoscale screenshot 5](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/00c5a0f74e61d81427ce.png)

### Information You'll Need In Step 3

- Your **Bucket name**
- Your **Bucket region**
- Your **Bucket key**
- Your **Bucket secret**

### 3. Connect your Exoscale bucket to SimpleBackups

- Go to the [connect your storage](https://my.simplebackups.com/storage/create) page
- Select **"Exoscale"** as storage provider and fill in the "Connect your storage" form with the information from step 1.

![Exoscale screenshot 6](https://simplebackups.com/docs/docs-assets/www-notion-so/8d9efa8e8969fb93a250.png)

You'll have to input :

- **Key**: Access Key described in step 2
- **Secret**: Secret Key described in step 2
- **Region**: Bucket location described in step 1
- **Bucket**: Bucket name described in step 1
- **Endpoint**: Storage endpoint described in step 1.
- Give your storage a **name** (usually we like to use the Bucket name) and click on "Save new storage".