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Set up your Amazon S3 connection

This article outlines the steps to create an Amazon S3 connection for pipelines in Microsoft Fabric.

Supported authentication types

The Amazon S3 connector supports the following authentication types for copy and Dataflow Gen2 respectively.

Authentication type Copy Dataflow Gen2
Access Key n/a

Set up your connection in a pipeline

The following table contains a summary of the properties needed for a pipeline connection:

Name Description Required Property Copy
Connection name A name for your connection. Yes
Connection type Select Amazon S3 for your connection type. Yes
Data source path Enter your account endpoint URL of your Amazon S3. Yes
Authentication Access Key Yes Access Key

For specific instructions to set up your connection in a pipeline, follow these steps:

  1. Browse to the New connection page for the Data Factory pipeline to configure the connection details and create the connection.

    Screenshot showing the new connection page.

    You have two ways to browse to this page:

    • In copy assistant, browse to this page after selecting the connector.
    • In pipeline, browse to this page after selecting + New in Connection section and selecting the connector.
  2. Specify the new connection name, type, data source path

    Screenshot showing how to set new connection.

  3. In the New connection pane, specify the following field:

    • Url: Specify the account endpoint URL of your Amazon S3 data.
  4. Under Authentication kind, select your authentication kind from the drop-down list and complete the related configuration. The Amazon S3 connector supports the following authentication types:

    • Access Key

    Screenshot showing the authentication kind for Amazon S3.

    • Access Key Id: Specify the ID of the secret access key.
    • Secret Access Key: Specify the secret access key itself.

    Screenshot showing the access key authentication kind for Amazon S3.

  5. Optionally, set the privacy level that you want to apply. Allowed values are Organizational, Privacy, and Public. For more information, see privacy levels in the Power Query documentation.

  6. Select Create to create your connection. Your creation is successfully tested and saved if all the credentials are correct. If not correct, the creation fails with errors.

    Screenshot showing connection page.