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id: s3
title: Amazon S3
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# Amazon S3

ToolJet can connect to Amazon S3 buckets and perform various operation on them.

## Connection

To add a new S3 source, go to the **Data sources manager** on the left sidebar of the app editor and click on `Add data source` button. Select **AWS S3** from the modal that pops up.

ToolJet requires the following to connect to your AWS S3:

- **Region**
- **Access key**
- **Secret key**

It is recommended to create a new IAM user for the database so that you can control the access levels of ToolJet.

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<img className="screenshot-full" src="/img/datasource-reference/aws-s3/connectv2.png" alt="aws s3 modal" width="600" />

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Click on **Test connection** button to verify if the credentials are correct and that the database is accessible to ToolJet server. Click on **Save** button to save the data source.

:::tip
You can now connect to **[different S3 Hosts using custom endpoints](/docs/how-to/s3-custom-endpoints)**.
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## Querying AWS S3

Click on `+` button of the **query manager** at the bottom panel of the editor and select the data source added in the previous step as the data source. Select the operation that you want to perform and click **Save** to save the query.

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<img className="screenshot-full" src="/img/datasource-reference/aws-s3/operationsv2.png" alt="aws s3 query" />

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Click on the **run** button to run the query. 

**NOTE**: Query should be saved before running.

:::tip
Query results can be transformed using transformations. Read our transformations documentation to see how: **[link](/docs/tutorial/transformations)**
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## Query operations

You can create query for AWS S3 data source to perform several actions such as:
  1. **[Read object](/docs/data-sources/s3#read-object)**
  2. **[Upload object](/docs/data-sources/s3#upload-object)**
  3. **[List buckets](/docs/data-sources/s3#list-buckets)**
  4. **[List objects in a bucket](/docs/data-sources/s3#list-objects-in-a-bucket)**
  5. **[Signed url for download](/docs/data-sources/s3#signed-url-for-download)**
  6. **[Signed url for upload](/docs/data-sources/s3#signed-url-for-upload)**

### Read object

You can read an object in a bucket by using this operation. It requires two parameters - **Bucket** name and **Key**.


<img className="screenshot-full" src="/img/datasource-reference/aws-s3/readv2.png" alt="aws s3 read object" />

### Upload object

You can use this operation to upload objects(files) to your S3 bucket. It requires four parameters:
  1. **Bucket**: Specify the bucket name
  2. **Key**: Key of the object/file
  3. **Content type**: Specify file type such as text, image etc. 
  4. **Upload data**: File/object that is to be uploaded. 


<img className="screenshot-full" src="/img/datasource-reference/aws-s3/uplobjv2.png"  alt="aws s3 upload"/>


### List buckets

This operation will list all the buckets in your S3. This does not require any parameter.


<img className="screenshot-full" src="/img/datasource-reference/aws-s3/listbucketsv2.png" alt="aws s3 bucket" />


### List objects in a bucket

This operation will fetch the list of all the files in your bucket. It requires two parameters:
  1. **Bucket**: Bucket name (mandatory)
  2. **Prefix**: To limit the response to keys that begin with the specified prefix (optional)
  3. **Max keys**: The maximum number of keys returned in the response body (optional). Default value is 1000.
  4. **Offset**: The key to start with when listing objects in a bucket (optional). 
  5. **"Next Continuation Token"**: `Next Continuation Token` indicates Amazon S3 that the list is being continued on this bucket with a token. ContinuationToken is obfuscated and is not a real key (optional).


:::info
**Next Continuation Token**
For listing a bucket for objects that begin with a specific character or a prefix, then use the `Offset` parameter. For example, if you want to list all the objects that begin with `a`, then set the `Offset` parameter to `a`. Similarly, if you want to list all the objects that begin with `ab`, then set the `Offset` parameter to `ab`.

The `Next Continuation Token` is used to list the next set of objects in a bucket. It is returned by the API when the response is truncated. The results will contain `Next Continuation Token` if there are more keys in the bucket that satisfy the list query. To get the next set of objects, set the `Next Continuation Token` parameter and run the query again.
The results will continue from where the last listing finished.
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<img className="screenshot-full" src="/img/datasource-reference/aws-s3/listobjectsv2.png" alt="aws s3 list object" />


### Signed url for download

The object owner can optionally share objects with others by creating a presigned URL, using their own security credentials, to grant time-limited permission to download the objects. For creating a presigned URL, the required parameters are:
  1. **Bucket**: name of the bucket for uploading the file
  2. **Key**: an object key
  3. **Expires in**: an expiration time of URL


<img className="screenshot-full" src="/img/datasource-reference/aws-s3/urldownv2.png" alt="aws s3 signed download" />


### Signed url for upload

The presigned URLs are useful if you want your user/customer to be able to upload a specific object to your bucket, but you don't require them to have AWS security credentials or permissions. For creating a presigned URL, the required parameters are:
  1. **Bucket**: name of the bucket for uploading the file
  2. **Key**: an object key
  3. **Expires in**: an expiration time of URL
  4. **Content type**: the content type such as text, image etc.


<img className="screenshot-full" src="/img/datasource-reference/aws-s3/urluplv2.png" alt="aws s3 signed upload" />



:::info
We built an app to view and upload files to AWS S3 buckets. Check out the complete tutorial **[here](https://blog.tooljet.com/build-an-aws-s3-broswer-with-tooljet/)**.
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