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title: "File Connection"
slug: "file-connection"
updated: 2024-10-04T16:49:09Z
published: 2024-10-04T16:49:09Z
canonical: "help.csgi.com/file-connection"
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# File Connection

A [file adaptor](/v1/docs/file-write-adaptor) uses this connection.

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- File Type - Currently, there is only support for Amazon S3 files, but there are plans to extend to other types (for example, Azure Blob Storage)
  - Amazon S3
    - Amazon Web Services Simple Storage System is an object-based storage scheme that presents a file-system view of the objects that it stores.
    - Folders are termed **buckets,** and files are **objects**. For all intents and purposes, it appears like a web-hosted file system. The ability to read and write data from S3 buckets helps integrate with other systems that can only handle file-based integrations, such as DMPs.
- For Amazon S3 (no region is needed, as bucket names are globally unique)
  - AWS Bucket
    - Top-level bucket name without any additional path.  Any further path should be included in the file name in the adaptor itself.
  - AWS Access Key Id
  - AWS Secret Access Key

With the File Connection has been created, you are able to use it in File Adaptors:

- [File Read](/v1/docs/file-read-adaptor)
- [File Write](/v1/docs/file-write-adaptor)