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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2017-02-13T18:01:40Z"
+ content="""
+It's not supposed to fail when the bucket already exists. There is an
+explicit check to see whether the bucket exists in current versions.
+
+Unfortunately, git-annex can't support the Frankfurt datacenter,
+until this API problem gets fixed <https://github.com/aristidb/aws/pull/199>
+
+In my tests, it doesn't fail that way when the bucket already exists.
+I didn't create the bucket in Frankfurt though, and it could be
+that due to the API problem it fails to notice that the bucket in Frankfurt
+already exists.
+"""]]