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Amazon S3 Connector

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Connector Features Summary
Features
Limitations

CES 7.0.7711+ (June 2015)

Amazon simple storage service (S3) is a cloud based object storage, designed to store, distribute and manage a large quantity of data worldwide.

The Coveo connector for Amazon S3 allows Coveo administrators to index and integrate the Amazon S3 content into the Coveo unified index and make it easily searchable by end-users.

The content of this section is also available in PDF format for download:
Amazon S3 Connector Guide

Note: An access key is needed to connect to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) service through the software development kit (SDK). The access key is a way to authenticate from the SDK as an Identity and Access Management (IAM) account. The number of requests is unlimited, but every request to your Amazon S3 bucket(s) has a charge (see Request Pricing).

Connector Features Summary

Features Supported Additional information
Amazon S3 version Latest cloud version Following available Amazon S3 releases
Searchable content types1 Buckets2 and objects (folders and files)
Content update Incremental refresh  
Full refresh  
Rebuild  
Document-level security Permissions must be manually defined on the source [more]

1- An access key is needed to connect to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) service through the software development kit (SDK). The access key is a way to authenticate from the SDK as an Identity and Access Management (IAM) account. The number of requests is unlimited, but every request to your Amazon S3 bucket(s) has a charge (see Request Pricing).

2- Amazon S3 Requester Pays buckets are not supported.

Features

The Amazon S3 connector features are:

Content indexing

The connector can retrieve and index exclusively the following Amazon S3 types of items:

  • Buckets

  • Objects (folders and files)

    Note: The connector supports Amazon S3 server-side encryption on object data.

Pause/Resume

When indexing Amazon S3 content, the connector can be paused and resumed.

Limitations

  • The Amazon S3 connector does not support the Amazon S3 security model. Thus, permissions must be manually defined on the source (see Permissions).

  • The Requester Pays feature in Amazon S3 is not supported (see Requester Pays Buckets).

What's Next?

Review the steps to deploy the Amazon S3 connector (see Amazon S3 Connector Deployment Overview).