Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases. It can be websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.
Amazon S3 provides easy management features to organize your data and configure finely tuned access controls to meet your specific business, organizational, and compliance requirements. Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) of durability, and stores data for millions of applications for companies all around the world.
💰 Amazon S3 is available by request. Contact your Affise account manager to get the feature.
Integration with Amazon S3
To set up your own Amazon S3 account, go to the website directly. Follow the steps described in the user guide, starting with creating a bucket.
⚠️ You are to turn on API at Amazon S3 side to allow Affise to pass the data. The account is to have the "Owner" role. Otherwise, there's no possibility of streaming the data into the bucket.
2. Fill in Amazon S3 configuration settings to create integration between your account and Amazon S3:
To set up Data Fusion with Amazon S3 on Affise, you should provide specific AWS S3 credentials and configuration. Below is a breakdown of where to find each required field in Amazon S3 and how to fill them in on Affise:
Frequency: the interval of files sending to Amazon S3 (in minutes).
Directory (Prefix): the folder path inside your S3 bucket where the files are stored.
Where to find it: go to Amazon S3 and open your bucket. Navigate to the folder containing your files (e.g.,
affise-data/). The prefix is the path before the filename (e.g.,affise-data/).How to fill in on Affise: if files are in the root of the bucket, leave it empty. If files are in a folder, enter the folder name (e.g.,
affise-data/).
Bucket: your S3 bucket name.
Where to find it: go to Amazon S3 > Buckets and copy the name of your bucket.
How to fill on Affise: enter the exact bucket name (e.g.,
my-affise-bucket).
Region: the AWS region where your S3 bucket is hosted.
Where to find it: go to Amazon S3, click your bucket, check the Region in the bucket properties. Example regions:
us-east-1,eu-west-1,ap-southeast-1.
How to fill on Affise: enter the region code (e.g.,
us-east-1).
⚠️ Your account determines the Regions that are available to you. The Region code has its special format, e.g., us-west-2. Read more information about the Regions codes here.
Access Key & Secret Key: AWS IAM credentials to allow Affise to access your S3 bucket.
Where to find them:
Go to AWS IAM Console > Users and select your user (or create one).
Under Security Credentials > Create Access Key.
Copy the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.
How to fill on Affise:
Access Key: paste the
Access Key ID.Secret Key: paste the
Secret Access Key.
🔎 You can choose certain affiliates and/or advertisers whose clicks and/or conversions the system sends to Amazon S3. It allows paying not for all conversions, but only for the needed ones.
On the plugin page, you can see some additional actions:
Delete integration: turn on the slider to stop the sync on sending the data from Affise to Amazon S3. It's completely erased from the Affise side. All previously uploaded to Amazon S3 files remain in their folders.
Click Save. After setting your account on the Amazon S3 side, the system sends your data on clicks and conversions to be stored there.
Sending information on clicks and conversions
The system creates .CSV file, compresses it into .GZ file, and sends it to Amazon S3 Storage. The .GZ format saves storage capacity. The system sends the file every 15 minutes by default.
The system starts the creation of a folder tree according to the current date of exporting process execution, and segments archives into the following folders: Year, Month, Day and the files are named according to the date {YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss}.
Please contact the Affise Customer Support team regarding all raised questions via the e-mail: [email protected].