The S3 Adapter is designed for navigating the S3 metadata only. A variety of of stored procedures relevant to S3 data are supported as well.

This metadata typically includes details about stored objects, such as file and folder names, and excludes the actual content of the discoverable files.

If access to both the file metadata and the actual file content is needed, then the S3 Adapter must be used in tandem with the associated file streaming driver(s) for the filetypes stored in S3.

The following file streaming drivers are available:

• Avro
• CSV
• Excel
• JSON
• Parquet
• REST
• XML

See the relevant CData file streaming driver's documentation for a configuration guide for connecting to files stored in S3.