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Connection - Amazon

The Amazon Connection stores connect and logon properties for the Amazon cloud services.

The Amazon Connection is currently used in the Cloud (S3) and Amazon EC2 Tasks that are accessing the Amazon Cloud services.

The Amazon Connection is used in the following Tasks:

And the following Triggers

Manage Connections > Add > Amazon > Main settings tab

Name

The unique name for the Connection

Address

This field is not used.

Timeout

The connection timeout in seconds. Connection will fail after this time period.

Code page

Code page being used.

Manage Connections > Add > Amazon > Authentication tab

Authentication type

Select password or public key authentication.

Access Key ID

The Access Key ID for the account.

Secret Access key

The Secret Access key for the account.

Private key

If public key authentication has been selected the select the path to the private key file and any password if used.

Manage Connections > Add > Amazon > Amazon tab

Region

Once authentication details have been filled you can click the refresh button to list available regions.

Use version 4 signatures

Signature Version 4 is the process to add authentication information to Amazon Web Services requests.

Amazon SQS

Create SQS queue

List SQS queus

Troubleshooting

General

Test the S3 explorer if it is working there.

HTTP request failed with code 403 (Forbidden)

Test with S3 explorer and look for error message. Generally this error comes if you do not have listing permissions on Buckets for the user. Please add permission - otherwise Tasks will not work properly.

SignatureDoesNotMatch

Uncheck/Check Use version 4 signatures.

Connection lost (error code is 100353)

Most likely a proxy error. You need to define a Proxy in the Proxy tab of the Connection.

The hostname could not be parsed

Make sure you have selected a Amazon region.

HTTP request failed with code 400 (Bad Request). Erroc code: AuthorizationHeaderMalformed.

The Amazon user is lacking "List buckets" permission.