Aws setup for Unity

Objective: Setup your AWS account and download the plugin for use in Unity

First thing to do if you want to follow along is to create an AWS account. Once you have made the free account you can continue on.

Once you have done that you can visit this link, this is the AWS run through on how to set up the Unity SDK for AWS.

You will want to download the AWS SDK for Unity and then unzip the folder. This will give you all of the packages for use inside of Unity. For this setup I am just using the S3 package. Drag that package into your Unity folder and then import the packages.

Now that the package is imported we need to make sure that the AWS service is initialised.

In your scene create an empty object, I’ve called mine AWSManager. I also added a new script, also called AWSManager. Open up the new script and at the following line to the awake function. But first, at the top of the script add the Amazon library.

That’s it for now, next will be showing how to set up an identity pool in the AWS management console so we can communicate with the S3 servers and our app.

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