Click through demonstration of a COS service being created

Use the click-thru demonstration below to practice provisioning a COS service. The click-thru demonstration corresponds to the video from the previous chapter. Refer to the video for talking points if the click-thru demonstration is utilized with clients.

Note, fields that require a text entry (e.g. service name) are pre-populated in the click-thru demonstration.

Tip

Not sure where to click or what to do next? Simply click anywhere on the screen and the spot to click next will be highlighted.

1. Open the link below and then click the play button to begin the demonstration.

   Click-thru demo: Create an IBM Cloud Object Storage service instance

2. Click Catalog in the top menu bar.

3. Click in the Catalog search text entry field.
4. Click the Object Storage tile.
5. Click the IBM Cloud tile under Choose an Infrastructure section.
6. Click the Standard pricing plan row in the pricing plan table.
7. Click in the Service name text entry field.
8. Click the Select a resource group pull-down menu.
9. Click the COS-L3 option in the resource group pull-down menu.
10. Click the Create button.

Once the provisioning completes, the new COS service can be found in the Storage section of the IBM Cloud Portal dashboard. The COS service instance is now ready for use.

In the next part of the demonstration guide, learn how to provision a Key Protect service instance and Root Key.