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

• 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 Authenticate using long-term credentials for details.

  • If you prefer to authenticate with a session-token, refer to this FAQ.

Google Cloud Storage

• Object access URIs

  URI Style	URI Format
  GSC public URL	https://storage.googleapis.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:

  • If you prefer to authenticate with long-term credentials, read Manage HMAC keys for service accounts for details.

  • If you prefer to authenticate with a session-token, refer to this FAQ.

Azure Blob Storage

• Object access URIs

  URI Style	URI Format
  Azure storage blob URI	https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/bucket-name/object_name

  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 a session-token, refer to this FAQ.