Object Storage Service:Create a bucket (Node.js SDK)

Usage notes

• In this topic, the public endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. To access OSS from other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region, use an internal endpoint. For details about supported regions and endpoints, see Regions and endpoints.

• Starting October 13, 2025, at 10:00 (UTC+8), OSS begins a phased rollout to enable blocking public access by default for all new buckets. This change applies to buckets created through the API, SDKs, and ossutil. For the specific rollout schedule in each region, see the Notice. When this feature is enabled, you cannot grant public access to the bucket, either through ACLs (such as public-read or public-read-write) or bucket policies. If your use case requires public access, disable this setting after the bucket is created.

Permissions

By default, an Alibaba Cloud account has full permissions. RAM users or RAM roles under an Alibaba Cloud account do not have any permissions by default. The Alibaba Cloud account or account administrator must grant operation permissions through RAM policies or Bucket policies.

Sample code

The following code provides an example on how to create a bucket named examplebucket:

const OSS = require('ali-oss');

const client = new OSS({
  // Specify the region in which the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is located in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the region to oss-cn-hangzhou. 
  region: 'yourregion',
  // Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before you run the sample code, make sure that you have configured environment variables OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET. 
  accessKeyId: process.env.OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  accessKeySecret: process.env.OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET,
  authorizationV4: true,
  // Specify the name of the bucket.
  bucket: 'yourBucketName',
});

// Create the bucket. 
async function putBucket() {
  try {
    const options = {
      storageClass: 'Standard', // By default, the storage class of a bucket is Standard. To set the storage class of the bucket to Archive, set storageClass to Archive. 
      acl: 'private', // By default, the access control list (ACL) of a bucket is private. To set the ACL of the bucket to public read, set acl to public-read. 
      dataRedundancyType: 'LRS' // By default, the redundancy type of a bucket is locally redundant storage (LRS). To set the redundancy type of the bucket to zone-redundant storage (ZRS), set dataRedundancyType to ZRS. 
    }
    // Specify the name of the bucket. 
    const result = await client.putBucket('examplebucket', options);
    console.log(result);
  } catch (err) {
    console.log(err);
  }
}

putBucket();        

References

For more information, see PutBucket.