Prepare Edge for the Amazon S3 integration

Before you can integrate an Amazon S3 file system via Edge, you must prepare your Edge site.

Follow the steps below to do so.

Step

What?

Description

1

Enable the Amazon S3 file system integration via Edge

Enables S3 integration via Edge.
2

If needed, create an Edge site.

Creates an Edge site to have a processing runtime at your premises.

Usually, you install one Edge site per virtual or physical network, security domain, virtual private cloud (VPC) or within your public Cloud account.

3

If needed, install the Edge site

Installs an Edge site to make the Edge software run on a server, close to your data source.

Note Make sure that you have the necessary system requirements to install the Edge site.

4

Add an AWS connection

Adds connection details to an Edge site to create a connection to Amazon S3.
5

Add the S3 synchronization capability

Adds the S3 synchronization capability to the connection to retrieve data from Amazon S3.