# Step 4: Create a Target Amazon S3 Bucket


Before you create the target endpoint, you create an Amazon S3 bucket for the target data lake.

To create the Amazon S3 bucket, do the following:

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console, and open the [Amazon S3 console](https://s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home).

1. Choose **Create bucket**.

1. For **Bucket name**, enter `s3-datalake`.

1. For ** AWS Region**, choose the region that hosts your AWS DMS replication instance.

1. Keep the default values in the other fields and choose **Create bucket**.

You can also plan to optimize the storage cost from Amazon S3 using [Intelligent-Tiering](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/intelligent-tiering/) and [Lifecycle policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lifecycle-mgmt.html) when storing huge volume of data.

Now, you have the Amazon S3 bucket for your data lake. Next, you can create a target endpoint for this bucket.