# Do I need a second aws S3 bucket for backup?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** backups, s3\
**Created:** [December 30, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-i-need-a-second-aws-s3-bucket-for-backup/76969 "2017-12-30T10:51:34Z")\
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Unless Your AWS account is shared or Your Discouse is having multiple admins, it’s okay (but not recommended) to leave it to s3.\*

Because that potentially means full control over s3 service so the worse that someone could do is to create a bunch of buckets and upload data to them … But that will only happen if somehow Your IAM credentials are leaked.

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