Connection String Options
The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on establishing a connection, see Establishing a Connection.
| Property | Description |
| Buckets | Specifies a comma-separated list of bucket names (for example, bucket1,bucket2,...). If this property is left empty, the first available bucket will be retrieved. |
| CustomURL | Specifies a custom S3 endpoint URL. Use for S3-compatible services or to route requests through a VPC endpoint when direct access to Amazon S3 is not available. |
| STSEndpointOverride | Specifies a custom endpoint for the AWS STS (Security Token Service). This can be used when connecting to a non-standard or regional STS endpoint. |
| SimpleUploadLimit | This setting specifies the threshold, in bytes, above which the provider will choose to perform a multipart upload rather than uploading everything in one request. |
| UseLakeFormation | When this property is set to true, AWSLakeFormation service will be used to retrieve temporary credentials, which enforce access policies against the user based on the configured IAM role. The service can be used when authenticating through OKTA, ADFS, AzureAD, PingFederate, while providing a SAML assertion. |
| UseVirtualHosting | If true (default), buckets will be referenced in the request using the hosted-style request: http://bucket-name.host/yourobject. If set to false, the bean will use the path-style request: http://host/bucket-name/yourobject. |
| Property | Description |
| AuthScheme | Specifies the type of authentication to use when connecting to Amazon S3. If this property is left blank, the default authentication is used. |
| AWSAccessKey | Specifies your AWS account access key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
| AWSSecretKey | Your AWS account secret key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
| AWSRoleARN | The Amazon Resource Name of the role to use when authenticating. |
| AWSPrincipalARN | The ARN of the SAML Identity provider in your AWS account. |
| AWSRegion | The hosting region for your Amazon Web Services. |
| AWSSessionToken | Your AWS session token. |
| AWSExternalId | A unique identifier that might be required when you assume a role in another account. |
| MFASerialNumber | The serial number of the MFA device if one is being used. |
| MFAToken | The temporary token available from your MFA device. |
| CredentialsLocation | The location of the settings file where MFA credentials are saved. |
| TemporaryTokenDuration | The amount of time (in seconds) a temporary token will last. |
| AWSCognitoRegion | The hosting region for AWS Cognito. |
| AWSUserPoolId | The User Pool Id. |
| AWSUserPoolClientAppId | The User Pool Client App Id. |
| AWSUserPoolClientAppSecret | Optional. The User Pool Client App Secret. |
| AWSIdentityPoolId | The Identity Pool Id. |
| AWSWebIdentityToken | The OAuth 2.0 access token or OpenID Connect ID token that is provided by an identity provider. |
| ServerSideEncryption | When activated, file uploads into Amazon S3 buckets will be server-side encrypted. |
| SSEContext | A BASE64-encoded UTF-8 string holding JSON which represents a string-string (key-value) map. |
| SSEEnableS3BucketKeys | Configuration to use an S3 Bucket Key at the object level when encrypting data with AWS KMS. Enabling this will reduce the cost of server-side encryption by lowering calls to AWS KMS. |
| SSEKey | A symmetric encryption KeyManagementService key, that is used to protect the data when using ServerSideEncryption. |
| Property | Description |
| KeycloakRealmURL | Specifies the full URL to the Keycloak server including the specific realm used for authentication and authorization. |
| Property | Description |
| User | The IDP user used to authenticate the IDP via SSO. |
| Password | The password used to authenticate the IDP user via SSO. |
| SSOLoginURL | The identity provider's login URL. |
| SSOProperties | Additional properties required to connect to the identity provider in a semicolon-separated list. |
| SSOExchangeURL | The URL used for consuming the SAML response and exchanging it for service specific credentials. |
| Property | Description |
| InitiateOAuth | Specifies the process for obtaining or refreshing the OAuth access token, which maintains user access while an authenticated, authorized user is working. |
| OAuthClientId | Specifies the client ID (also known as the consumer key) assigned to your custom OAuth application. This ID is required to identify the application to the OAuth authorization server during authentication. |
| OAuthClientSecret | Specifies the client secret assigned to your custom OAuth application. This confidential value is used to authenticate the application to the OAuth authorization server. (Custom OAuth applications only.). |
| OAuthAccessToken | Specifies the OAuth access token used to authenticate requests to the data source. This token is issued by the authorization server after a successful OAuth exchange. |
| OAuthSettingsLocation | Specifies the location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved. |
| CallbackURL | Identifies the URL users return to after authenticating to Amazon S3 via OAuth (Custom OAuth applications only). |
| Scope | Specifies the scope of the authenticating user's access to the application, to ensure they get appropriate access to data. If a custom OAuth application is needed, this is generally specified at the time the application is created. |
| OAuthRefreshToken | Specifies the OAuth refresh token used to request a new access token after the original has expired. |
| Property | Description |
| SSLServerCert | Specifies the certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | Specifies the protocol the provider uses to tunnel traffic through a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallServer | Identifies the IP address, DNS name, or host name of a proxy used to traverse a firewall and relay user queries to network resources. |
| FirewallPort | Specifies the TCP port to be used for a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallUser | Identifies the user ID of the account authenticating to a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | Specifies the password of the user account authenticating to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | Specifies whether the provider checks your system proxy settings for existing proxy server configurations, rather than using a manually specified proxy server. |
| ProxyServer | Identifies the hostname or IP address of the proxy server through which you want to route HTTP traffic. |
| ProxyPort | Identifies the TCP port on your specified proxy server that has been reserved for routing HTTP traffic to and from the client. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | Specifies the authentication method the provider uses when authenticating to the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyUser | Provides the username of a user account registered with the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyPassword | Specifies the password of the user specified in the ProxyUser connection property. |
| ProxySSLType | Specifies the SSL type to use when connecting to the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyExceptions | Specifies a semicolon-separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the proxy server set in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| Property | Description |
| Logfile | Specifes the file path to the log file where the provider records its activities, such as authentication, query execution, and connection details. |
| Verbosity | Specifies the verbosity level of the log file, which controls the amount of detail logged. Supported values range from 1 to 5. |
| LogModules | Specifies the core modules to include in the log file. Use a semicolon-separated list of module names. By default, all modules are logged. |
| MaxLogFileSize | Specifies the maximum size of a single log file in bytes. For example, '10 MB'. When the file reaches the limit, the provider creates a new log file with the date and time appended to the name. |
| MaxLogFileCount | Specifies the maximum number of log files the provider retains. When the limit is reached, the oldest log file is deleted to make space for a new one. |
| Property | Description |
| Location | Specifies the location of a directory containing schema files that define tables, views, and stored procedures. Depending on your service's requirements, this may be expressed as either an absolute path or a relative path. |
| BrowsableSchemas | Optional setting that restricts the schemas reported to a subset of all available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC . |
| Tables | Optional setting that restricts the tables reported to a subset of all available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC . |
| Views | Optional setting that restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC . |
| Property | Description |
| AutoCache | Specifies whether the content of tables targeted by SELECT queries is automatically cached to the specified cache database. |
| CacheProvider | The namespace of an ADO.NET provider. The specified provider is used as the target database for all caching operations. |
| CacheDriver | The driver class of a JDBC driver. The specified driver is used to connect to the target database for all caching operations. |
| CacheConnection | Specifies the connection string for the specified cache database. |
| CacheLocation | Specifies the path to the cache when caching to a file. |
| CacheTolerance | Notes the tolerance, in seconds, for stale data in the specified cache database. Requires AutoCache to be set to True. |
| Offline | Gets the data from the specified cache database instead of live Amazon S3 data. |
| CacheMetadata | Determines whether the provider caches table metadata to a file-based cache database. |
| Property | Description |
| AWSCertificate | The absolute path to the certificate file or the certificate content in PEM format encoded in base64. |
| AWSCertificatePassword | The password for the certificate if applicable, otherwise leave blank. |
| AWSCertificateType | The type of AWSCertificate . |
| AWSPrivateKey | The absolute path to the private key file or the private key content in PEM format encoded in base64. |
| AWSPrivateKeyPassword | The password for the private key if it is encrypted, otherwise leave blank. |
| AWSPrivateKeyType | The type of AWSPrivateKey . |
| AWSProfileARN | Profile to pull policies from. |
| AWSSessionDuration | Duration, in seconds, for the resulting session. |
| AWSTrustAnchorARN | Trust anchor to use for authentication. |
| CreateFoldersOnDownload | Indicates whether the destination folder should be created automatically when executing the DownloadObjects stored procedure. |
| EncodeFilename | Specifies whether to encode file and folder names in the object key when uploading or downloading files. |
| MaxRows | Specifies the maximum number of rows returned for queries that do not include either aggregation or GROUP BY. |
| MaxThreads | Specifies the number of concurrent requests. |
| Other | Specifies additional hidden properties for specific use cases., to be used only when our Support team advises it, to address specific issues. See Remarks for details. |
| PseudoColumns | Specifies the pseudocolumns to expose as table columns, expressed as a string in the format 'TableName=ColumnName;TableName=ColumnName'. |
| RTK | Specifies the runtime key for licensing the provider. If unset or invalid, the provider defaults to the standard licensing method. This property is only required in environments where the standard licensing method is unsupported or requires a runtime key. |
| Timeout | Specifies the maximum time, in seconds, that the provider waits for a server response before throwing a timeout error. |
| UserDefinedViews | Specifies a filepath to a JSON configuration file that defines custom views. The provider automatically detects and uses the views specified in this file. |