Amazon S3 Release Notes

June 2022link

We have redesigned the Skip Header Lines and Skip Footer Lines setup form fields for our Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Dropbox, FTP, FTPS, Google Cloud Storage, and SFTP file connectors. To set these advanced options, enable them using the toggles and specify the number of skipped lines in the input fields.

Compare how the setup form looked before the change:

and how it looks now:

January 2022link

We have added support for AWS PrivateLink connections to S3 buckets. If you’re on a Business Critical plan, you can now opt to always connect through a private link if your bucket and destination are in the same AWS Region. In the connector setup form, set the Require PrivateLink toggle to ON. For more information, see our setup instructions.

November 2021link

You can now use a custom external_id parameter when you create a new S3 connector with the Fivetran REST API.

NOTE: Connectors created in the Fivetran dashboard do not support custom external_id values, so they use the connector’s group_id by default instead.

April 2021link

We have added a new advanced configuration option List Strategy to the connector setup form. Enable the Enable Advanced Options toggle and select the listing strategy you want to use:

• complete_listing: The default listing strategy where we list all the files in the bucket and filter new and modified files.

• time_based_pattern_listing: An optimized listing strategy to improve sync speeds. We fetch the files in a lexicographic order starting from the last file of the previous sync. You can opt to use this strategy if your files are named based on the date or time they are added to the bucket. For example, if a time-based pattern exists in the bucket leading to every new file being appended in a lexicographically increasing order:

  Filename	Last Modified
  2021/01/01.csv	January 1, 2021
  2021/01/02.csv	January 2, 2021
  2021/01/03.csv	January 3, 2021
  2021/01/04.csv	January 4, 2021

  NOTE: If we are unable to identify a time-based pattern in the file names, we will use the default strategy and list all the files.

August 2020link

We now support syncing headerless delimited format files (CSV, TSV, log) for S3 connectors. We will create generic column names for CSV files without a header line. This feature is in beta and available to all customers. See the configuration options in our files documentation for details.

June 2020link

We now exclude S3 objects that have been archived to Glacier storage class from our data syncs. If you want us to sync these objects, restore them to standard storage.

April 2020link

You can now connect to public S3 buckets without needing an AWS account.

March 2020link

Our Amazon S3 connector can now sync Parquet files. We support Parquet format 2.4.0. This feature is in Beta.

June 2019link

We now require you to configure a Role ARN when you set up an Amazon S3 connector, even if your bucket is a public bucket.

Existing Amazon S3 connectors will not be affected. However, if you reconfigure an existing connector or create a new one, you will have to configure a Role ARN even if your bucket is a public bucket.

We have added a new connection test to the Amazon S3 setup form that helps you adopt security best practices. The test checks your bucket policy settings to make sure you have created your Role ARN using the given externalID.

If you mistakenly create your Role ARN without using the give externID, the configuration will now fail the test. You will have to correct your Role ARN.

August 2018link

We can now sync data from public buckets.

May 2018link

Our setup form now correctly handles directory patterns that don’t end with /.