File Connection

A file connection is used by a file adaptor.

• 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 is useful for integrating 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
• File Write