Add an S3 synchronization capability to an Edge site

After you created and installed an Edge site, you can add an Edge capability to perform specific tasks on a data source. In this case, you can synchronize Amazon S3 using an AWS connection.

Prerequisites

• You have a global role that has the System administration global permission.
• You have a global role with the Manage connections and capabilities global permission, for example Edge integration engineer.
• You have created and installed an Edge site.
• You have created an AWS connection.

Steps

1. Open an Edge site.
   1. On the main menu, click , then Settings.
      The Collibra settings page opens.
   2. In the tab pane, click Edge.
      The Edge sites overview appears.
   3. In the Edge site overview, click the name of an Edge site with the status Healthy.
      The Edge site page appears.
2. In the Capabilities section, click Add capability.
   The Add capability page appears.
3. Enter the required information.

   Field	Description	Required
   Capability	This section contains the general information about the capability.
   Name	The name of the Edge capability.	Yes
   Description	The description of the Edge capability.	No
   Capability template	The capability template, which determines the next available sections. Select the S3 synchronization capability template to connect to Amazon S3.	Yes
   S3 service account	This section contains the information on how to connect to Amazon S3.
   AWS Connection	The AWS connection to be used.	Yes
   IAM role	The IAM role used by AWS Glue crawlers.	Yes
   Encryption options	Select the type of encryption used to store the IAM role. Default: To be encrypted by Edge management server.	Yes

   Note The General section only applies to JDBC capabilities.

4. Click Create.
   The capability is added to the Edge site.
   The fields become read-only.

What's next?

You can now register an Amazon S3 file system.