One of the data consumption methods offered by ForwardKeys Connect is via transfer to your cloud environment. Among other modalities, we allow our users to set up a connection with an AWS S3 bucket provided by ForwardKeys in self-service mode.
The configuration only requires you to fill in a form that you can open from the My workspace page > Details of the view by clicking on the Add Connection button, or from the Connector settings page, by clicking on the Add Connector button.
Apart from some standard elements, such as the name of the connector and email addresses that need to be notified about deliveries, to set up a connection with our AWS bucket, you will need to provide your AWS user or role. This is necessary so that we can ensure secure access to your data.
Once the setup is completed and the connector attached to some data view(/s) in your Connect account, we will start generating data files and delivering them to the bucket created for you. Each data delivery, meaning each set of data files that we will send to the bucket, will be available for you to access and retrieve for seven days.
You can find more information in the official documentation on AWS services:
- accessing files: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/ObjectsinRequesterPaysBuckets.html
- resource names: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-arns.html
- general information: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/RequesterPaysBuckets.html