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Amazon S3 Connection

Currently, only support for CSV, Apache Parquet, and Microsoft Excel files is available.

Create a source

To connect to Amazon S3:

  1. Navigate to Catalog > Sources.

  2. Select Create.

  3. Provide the following:

    • Name: The source name.

    • Description: A description of the source.

    • Deployment (Optional): Choose the deployment type.

      You can add new values if needed.

    • Stewardship: The source owner and roles. For more information, see Stewardship.

  4. Save your changes to proceed.

You do not always need to create a new data source. You can also add connections to existing sources.

Add a connection

  1. Select the Connections tab of your data source.

  2. Select Add Connection.

  3. In Select connection type, choose File System > Amazon S3.

  4. Provide the following:

    • Name: A meaningful name for your connection. This is used to indicate the location of catalog items.

    • Description (Optional): A short description of the connection.

    • Bucket name: Provide the name of the Amazon S3 bucket that you want to use.

    • Region: Select the region to which the bucket belongs.

Add credentials

Only AWS Access Key authentication is supported.

  1. Select Add Credentials.

    The connecting user requires the following permissions in AWS:

    • s3:ListBucket: Allows retrieving all content from a bucket.

    • s3:GetObject: Allows downloading files to DPE when browsing or importing data.

  2. Provide the following:

    • Name (Optional): A name for this set of credentials.

    • Description (Optional): A description for this set of credentials.

    • Access key: Specify the AWS access key ID.

    • Secret key: Specify the AWS secret access key.

  3. If you want to use this set of credentials by default when connecting to the data source, select Set as default.

    One set of credentials must be set as default for each connection. Otherwise, DQ evaluation fails and previewing data in the catalog is not possible.

  4. Optionally, enable assuming a role, as described in Assumed role.

  5. Proceed with Test the connection.

Assumed role

All S3 credential types offer the option to assume a role from a different AWS account (such as AWS Access Key, EC2 Instance Role, or Web Identity Role) instead of using the user’s known identity.

To configure this:

  1. Select Enable Assumed Role.

  2. Provide the following:

    • Amazon Resource Name (ARN): The ARN of the IAM role you want to assume, for example: arn:aws:iam::123456789123:role/myAwesomeRole.

    • External ID (Optional): If the role creation in AWS administration enables the use of an external ID for the trust relationship between accounts, enter it here. For example: prod-eu.

    • Session name (Optional): A name for the session to identify the connection in AWS logs.

      It should consist of uppercase and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _ = , . @ -.

      You can also provide a default value in the field, such as Ataccama_One.

    • Security Token Service region: The AWS region, such as eu-central-1 or us-east-1, in which you want to use the STS service.

Add write credentials

Write credentials are required if you want to use the database output step in Data Transformations for this source.

To configure these, in Write credentials, select Add Credentials and follow the corresponding step depending on the chosen authentication method (see Add credentials).

Make sure to set one set of write credentials as default, otherwise you won’t be able to select the credentials when configuring your database output step.

Test the connection

To test and verify whether the data source connection has been correctly configured, select Test Connection.

If the connection is successful, continue with the following step. Otherwise, verify that your configuration is correct and that the data source is running.

Save and publish

Once you have configured your connection, save and publish your changes. If you provided all the required information, the connection is now available for other users in the application.

In case your configuration is missing required fields, you can view a list of detected errors instead. Review your configuration and resolve the issues before continuing.

Next steps

You can now browse and profile assets from your Amazon S3 connection.

In Catalog > Sources, find and open the source you just configured. Switch to the Connections tab and select Import or run Term detection.

Or, to import or profile only some assets, select Browse on the Connections tab. Choose the assets you want to analyze and then the appropriate profiling option.

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