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Amazon S3 Connection

This article describes how to connect to Amazon S3.

Availability

Data processing & catalog Edge processing Lineage Exceptions

  • Supports CSV, Apache Parquet, Microsoft Excel files.

  • Doesn’t support creating SQL catalog items.

Prerequisites

Add a connection

  1. Go to [your source] > Connections and select Add Connection.

  2. In Connection type, select Amazon S3.

  3. Fill in the following:

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

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

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

    • Region: The region to which the bucket belongs.

Add credentials

Only AWS Access Key authentication is supported.

Ensure the connecting user has the following permissions in AWS:

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

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

  1. Select Add Credentials.

  2. Fill in the following:

    • Name: Provide a clear name for this set of credentials.

    • Description (Optional): Explain what the credentials are used for or provide other useful information.

    • Access key: The AWS access key ID.

    • Secret key: The AWS secret access key.

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

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

Add write credentials

If you want to export data to this source, add write credentials. Select Add Credentials and follow the instructions in Add credentials.

Next steps

Test and save your connection to complete setup.

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