Manage the Amazon S3 Connector

Describes the Amazon S3 connector.

The Self-Service Analytics Amazon S3 connector lets you access the data available in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) storage using the Self-Service Analytics client. This connector uses the S3A protocol.

The Self-Service Analytics Amazon S3 connector uses its own embedded Apache Spark functionality. It supports Apache Spark 2.2 in its implementation.

Before you can establish a connection from Self-Service Analytics to Amazon S3 storage, a connector server needs to be downloaded, configured and enabled. See Manage Connectors and Connector Servers for general instructions and Connect to Amazon S3 for details specific to the Amazon S3 connector.

After setting up the connector, create data sources that specify the necessary connection information and identify the data you want to use. See Create and Manage Data Sources for more information. After you set up your data sources, create dashboards, self service reports, and visuals from the data in these data sources.

Feature Support

Connector support for specific features is shown in the following table.

Key: Y - Supported; N - Not Supported; N/A - not applicable

Feature	Supported?
Admin-Defined Functions	Y
Box Plots	Y
Custom SQL Queries	Y
Derived Fields (Row-Level Expressions)	Y
Distinct Counts	Y
Fast Distinct Values	N/A
Group By Multiple Fields	Y
Group By Time	Y
Group By UNIX Time	Y
Histogram Floating Point Values	Y
Histograms	Y
Kerberos Authentication	N
Last Value	Y
Live Mode and Playback	Y
Multivalued Fields	N/A
Nested Fields	N/A
Partitions	N/A
Pushdown Joins for Fusion Data Sources	N
Schemas	Y
Text Search	N/A
TLS	N
User Delegation	N
Wildcard Filters	Y
Wildcard Filters, Case-Insensitive Mode	Y
Wildcard Filters, Case-Sensitive Mode	Y

Connect to Amazon S3

Scheduled reload of newly added data is not supported for the Amazon S3 connector. To add new data:

1. Navigate to the Fields tab of your data source configuration.
2. Select (check) the Refresh Fields checkbox on the tab. This forces the connector to reload any new data discovered at the level of the data source.