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Overview

PlayerZero offers the ability to store sensitive data—such as code context and devtools artifacts—in a private S3 bucket owned and managed by your organization. This ensures that all persisted data remains within your infrastructure, giving you full control over access, encryption, and compliance.

This feature is available exclusively on Enterprise Plans.

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Why Use Private Storage?

By integrating your own storage layer, you can:

  • Maintain ownership of sensitive application data
  • Meet regulatory and security requirements (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR)
  • Apply your own encryption, IAM policies, and retention rules
  • Ensure data never leaves your cloud perimeter

PlayerZero will read from and write to this bucket during normal product operation (e.g., sharing devtools data, code snapshots, etc.).

We support any S3-compatible storage provider. Most teams choose:

  • Amazon S3
  • MinIO, for self-hosted S3 compatibility

While we recommend using AWS’s us-east-1 region (where PlayerZero systems are located), you are free to host your bucket in any region. We will automatically optimize for performance wherever possible.

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1. Create a Secure S3 Bucket

Provision a bucket using your organization’s usual naming and configuration standards. We recommend the following general guidelines:

  • Access Control: Keep ACLs disabled; use IAM roles and policies for access.
  • Versioning: Not required—PlayerZero will recreate missing data if needed.
  • Encryption: Enable default encryption (server-side encryption with the method of your choice).
  • Object Lock: Should be disabled to prevent unnecessary performance degradation.

If you’re using a provider other than AWS, ensure your storage solution supports S3-compatible APIs.

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2. Create a Scoped API Token

In order for PlayerZero to interact with your S3 bucket, you’ll need to generate access credentials with scoped permissions.

  • Create a new IAM group (e.g., playerzero-storage)
  • Attach permissions: Grant full access to the specific S3 bucket
  • Create a new IAM user (e.g., playerzero-api) that belongs to this group
  • Generate access keys for the user
    (Be sure to copy both the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key securely; the secret key will not be visible again.)

Do not grant console access to this user. The keys will only be used for backend programmatic access.

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3. Share Credentials with PlayerZero

Once you’ve created your bucket and API credentials, securely share the following with your PlayerZero account team:

  • Bucket name and region
  • Access Key ID
  • Secret Access Key

PlayerZero will use these credentials exclusively for storage interactions and will not access any other part of your infrastructure.

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Alternative: Self-Hosted Storage

If you do not use AWS or prefer to host the storage internally, we recommend using MinIO — an open-source S3-compatible object store. This gives you the same private storage model with complete control.

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Need Help?

Reach out to your PlayerZero support contact or email support@playerzero.ai for help with bucket setup, access policies, or configuration validation.