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.

• In this example, a bucket with a region attribute is created. If you want to use the following code to create a bucket without a region attribute, you must replace the endpoint with https://oss-rg-china-mainland.aliyuncs.com. In addition, a bucket without a region attribute supports only the Standard storage class and only locally redundant storage (LRS) for data redundancy, and does not support resource group configuration. For more information about buckets without a region attribute, see Bucket region attributes.

• Starting at 10:00:00 (UTC+8) on October 13, 2025, OSS gradually enables Block public access by default for buckets that are created by calling API operations or by using OSS SDKs or ossutil in all regions. For the time when the change takes effect in each region, see Announcement. After this feature is enabled, you cannot grant public access permissions, including the public-read or public-read-write ACL and bucket policies that allow public access. If your business requires public access, you can disable block public access 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 Policy.

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.