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File Connection

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A file adaptor uses this connection.

  • 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: