Set up a connection to Amazon S3

Amazon S3 links: API Guide , Authentication

• Name: (Required) Give your connection a name. Make your connection name something that you and people working on your integrations will recognize in a list of connections.
• Access key ID: (Required) Enter your access key ID. Use the following steps to get your access key ID and secret access key:
  1. Use your AWS account ID or account alias, your IAM user name, and your password to sign in to the IAM console.

     Note: For your convenience, the AWS sign-in page uses a browser cookie to remember your IAM user name and account information. If you previously signed in as a different user, chooseSign in to a different account near the bottom of the page to return to the main sign-in page. From there, you can type your AWS account ID or account alias to be redirected to the IAM user sign-in page for your account.

  2. In the navigation bar on the upper right, choose your user name, and then choose My Security Credentials.
     
  3. On the AWS IAM Credentials tab, in the Access keys for CLI, SDK, and API access section, choose Create access key.
  4. Then choose Download .csv file to save the access key ID and secret access key to a .csv file on your computer. Store the file in a secure location. You will not have access to the secret access key again after this dialog box closes.
  5. After you have downloaded the .csv file, choose Close. When you create an access key, the key pair is active by default, and you can use the pair right away.
• Secret access key: (Required) Enter your secret access key.
• Bucket: Optional: Specify the Amazon S3 folder, such as: folder1. S3 bucket names cannot contain forward slashes or folder structure. If you have folder structure in the bucket such as folder1/subfolderA/topic1, the bucket name would be folder1. You would then put the remaining subfolderA/topic1 in the Key starts with field. 

  Note: To find out if you have access to buckets, and what those buckets are, ask your organization or contact Amazon.  

• Key starts with: Optional: If your bucket folder is within a folder structure, put the beginning part of the structure in this field. For example, if your path was subfolderA/topic1/folder1, you would put subfolderA/topic1 in this field, but folder1 in the Bucket field.

Click Test connection to test whether your connection is successful, then Save & close.

Advanced

Enable PGP cryptographic: If this connection will be used to transfer and encrypt/decrypt files using PGP, enable this option and configure the settings.