Import data from Amazon S3
Zoho DataPrep supports importing data from Amazon S3 cloud storage service. Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as Amazon S3 from AWS provides object storage through a web service interface.
Important
Prior to connecting your Amazon S3 data with Zoho DataPrep, you need to enable the below permissions from your Amazon S3 account:
1. ListAllMyBuckets
2. Get BucketLocation
3. ListBucket
4. GetObject
Please refer to Amazon S3 help pages to provide these permissions.
To import data from Amazon S3
1. Choose the Cloud storage category from the left pane and click the Amazon S3 icon to import from Amazon S3. You can also search the required cloud storage services in the search box.
Note: If you had already added an Amazon S3 connection earlier, click the Saved connections category from the left pane and proceed to import. To learn more about Saved connections, click here.2. Authenticate your Amazon S3 account. You will need to authorize DataPrep to access your files when you do this for the first time.
3. Provide necessary details in the Connection name, Access key, and Secret key fields.
4. Click the Authenticate Amazon S3 button to authenticate your account with your credentials.
Note: The connection configuration will be saved for accessing data in Amazon S3 in the future. Credentials are securely encrypted and stored.
5. If you have created a connection already, you can view the existing connection tile. Simply click the connection tile and start importing data.
Click the Add new link to add a new Amazon S3 account. You can create as many Amazon S3 connections as required.6. Choose the required bucket and select the files you want to import. Click the Import button.
You can also incrementally import the files using the Advanced seletion link. Click here to know more about incremental fetch from Amazon S3.
7. If the file is an HTML, XLS, or XLSX file, you can click the Preview option to view a sample of the data, or, enter the password if the file is password-protected, and click Import.
8. Once you have completed importing data, your dataset will open and you can start preparing your data right away.
Note: You can choose to schedule the import using the Schedule import option available for datasets in your workspace or from the Import menu in the top bar of the DataPrep Studio page. Click here to know more.
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