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S3 Source Connection

Follow our setup guide to connect an Amazon S3 bucket as a data source for your Data Product.

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Written by Jon Tam
Updated over 2 years ago

Prerequisites

Amazon S3, or Amazon Simple Storage Service, is an object storage service offered by Amazon Web Services that provides highly scalable, cloud storage service. Data, in S3, is stored in containers called buckets.


Connection Fields

To create an S3 source connection, configure the following connection settings:

Field

Description

Connection name

Unique name of your connection

Connection type

Type of connection: S3

AWS Access Key

AWS credentials used in conjunction with the secret access key to sign into AWS.

AWS Secret Passcode

AWS credentials used in conjunction with the access key Id to sign into AWS

ARN Role (optional)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) specifying the role. If a role is not provided, Basic Auth credentials are used.

Bucket or Remote Path

Enter either the S3 bucket name or the path to the specific directory you want to access starting with bucket-name.

Example:

  • S3 bucket name: my-s3-bucket.

  • Path to specific directory: my-s3-bucket/data/images/ (also known as a "prefix").


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