Amazon S3 Connector

Amazon S3 Connector

With the Qlik Amazon S3 connector allows you to retrieve your stored data from your Amazon S3 buckets.

Ways to Access Your Data

To access your Amazon S3 data, you must verify the connector with your Amazon S3 access key and secret key. Your access credentials are stored in the Qlik WebConnectors.

A number of advantages

• ListBuckets - Retrieves a list of buckets from Amazon S3 account.
• List - Retrieves a list of folders from bucket and the objects from the folders. You need the bucket region and bucket name to run this table.
• ListObjects - Retrieves a list of objects from a bucket. You need the bucket region and bucket name to run this table.
• Metadata - Returns metadata for the object.
• GetRawObject - Returns an object from Amazon S3. You must have READ access to the object.
• GetRawObjectAsText - Returns an Amazon S3 object as text. You must have READ access to the object.
• SaveRawObjectToDisk - Saves an object from Amazon S3 to disk. You must have READ access to the object.

Amazon S3 documentation

You can refer to the Amazon S3 API documentation for more information on the requirements and restrictions imposed by the Amazon S3 REST API.

Troubleshooting

You receive an error message that you have reached the API limit.

Possible cause

You have exceeded the API limits imposed on Qlik Web Connectors through the Amazon S3 API.

Proposed action

To reduce the impact of reaching the API limit, develop your app with the following in mind:
- Extract only the data you need.
- Reload one Amazon S3 based application at a time.
- Make sure that loops in your script that make API calls do not result in infinite loops.