If your preferred cloud data source is Amazon S3, see the steps below.
You should be familiar with Amazon S3 , and be able to work with S3 buckets for data storage.
To connect to Amazon S3:
- Select Connections from the menu.
- Select New connection from the top right corner.
The Connect to a service dialog displays.
![The Connect to a service dialog. The dropdown choices are Amazon S3, Azure Blob,Google BigQuery, PlanIQ, Salesforce and Predictive Insights.](https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/cddce937-cf5a-003a-bfad-78b8fc29ea3f/a908a8df-316a-4b5a-9136-bcb0d2eef758/Connect-to-Service.png)
- Select Amazon S3 from the dropdown.
The dialog menu expands below. - Complete the dialog entries:
- Enter a new Connection name. Use a unique name that starts and ends with a letter or number. You can include spaces, hyphens (-), and underscores (_), but no other special characters. The limit is 60 characters.
- Retrieve your AWS Access key ID and Secret Access key values and enter them.
- Enter the AWS Bucket name.
- Enter Role ARN (optional).
- Select Connect to save the settings for this connection.