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Storage Options

Before importing data, it's important to understand the supported cloud storage options and their corresponding URL formats. This ensures that your requests can be properly processed without undergoing validation errors.

AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)​

  • Object access URIs

    URI Style

    URI Format

    AWS Object URL, virtual-hosted–style

    https://<bucket_name>.s3.<region-code>.amazonaws.com/<object_name>

    AWS Object URL, path-style

    https://s3.<region-code>.amazonaws.com/<bucket_name>/<object_name>

    AWS S3 URI

    s3://<bucket_name>/<object_name>

    For more details, see Methods for accessing a bucket.

  • Required permissions

    • s3:GetObject

    • s3:ListBucket

    • s3:GetBucketLocation

    • kms:Decrypt

      📘Notes

      If your bucket or specific items in the bucket are encrypted with a custom KMS ID, you must provide decryption permissions for that KMS ID along with the authentication credentials.

  • Credential acquisition

    Based on your data security requirements, you can use either long-term credentials or session tokens during data import:

Google Cloud Storage​

  • Object access URIs

    URI Style

    URI Format

    GSC public URL

    https://storage.cloud.google.com/<bucket_name>/<object_name>

    GSC gsutil URI

    gs://<bucket_name>/<object_name>

    For more details, see Share the object.

  • Required permissions

    • storage.objects.get

    • storage.objects.list

  • Credential acquisition

    Based on your data security requirements, you can use either long-term credentials or session tokens during data import:

Azure Blob Storage​

  • Object access URIs

    URI Style

    URI Format

    Azure storage blob URI

    https://<storage_account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<blob>

    For more details, see Resource URI Syntax.

  • Credential acquisition

    Based on your data security requirements, you can use either long-term credentials or session tokens during data import:

    • If you prefer to authenticate with long-term credentials, read View account access keys for details

    • If you prefer to authenticate with short-term credentials, refer to this FAQ.