Amazon S3 Installation Prerequisites

User Accounts and Application Permissions

Required Permission Description
S3 Account
  • An account with full READ permissions on all of the content to be indexed from the Amazon S3 buckets.

  • The account accessing S3 must have both a generated AND active:

    • Access key ID

    • Secret key ID

  • Once a secret key ID is generated, you must copy it and store it. It is only shown to you once.

  • The only option to view your key ID later is to generate a new one.

 

Connector Features and Requirements

Features Supported Additional Information
S3 version

Searchable content types Yes All content types.
Content Update Full and Incremental All BA Insight Connectors support both Full and Incremental crawls, unless noted.
Permission Types Yes
Required Software .NET Framework v4.7.2
  • Amazon S3 connector only uses the AWS REST APIs to communicate with Amazon buckets and retrieve their content.

  • Your network must have the ability to reach Amazon S3 REST service endpoint(s).