# Amazon S3 archival locations

Source: https://docs.rubrik.com/en-us/latest/offrec/offrec/archival/arch_amazon_s3_or.html

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# Amazon S3 archival locations  
  
With Rubrik cluster, you can connect as a reader to an existing Azure archival storage to read existing data to perform a recovery during a service disruption. The Amazon S3 archival storage was previously configured from a different Rubrik cluster.

Rubrik cluster supports Amazon S3 as an archival location. You can use Rubrik cluster to create an Amazon S3 archival location.

Rubrik recommends disabling the archival location on the owner cluster before you create a reader on the recovery cluster. This ensures that the owner cluster is not adding new data to the archival location while the reader is retrieving contents from the archival location. You can re-enable the archival location on the owner cluster to resume archival operations after you create the reader.

For the recovery Rubrik cluster to connect to the archival target and read the data, the archival location configuration must be the same as the configuration used by the owner cluster for connecting to the archival target.