Prerequisites

Before you can use Amazon S3 as a target endpoint in a Replicate task, the following prerequisites must be met:

• Make sure the time and time zone settings on the Replicate machine are accurate. This is required in order to ensure:

  • Proper synchronization of Full Load and CDC tasks.
  • Correlation of the transaction log time with the actual time.

• Replicate connects to AWS using SSL. This requires an appropriate CA certificate to reside on the Replicate machine; otherwise, the connection will fail. The purpose of the CA certificate is to authenticate the ownership of the AWS server certificate.

  On Windows, the required CA certificate is always present whereas on Linux it may sometimes be missing. Therefore, if you are using Replicate for Linux, make sure that the required CA certificate exists in the following location on the Linux machine:

  /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

  If it does not exist, the simplest solution is to copy the certificates bundle from another Linux machine.

• You must have an Amazon S3 bucket that is accessible from the Replicate machine.

  For information on signing up for Amazon S3, see http://aws.amazon.com/s3/.

• Bucket access credentials: Make a note of the bucket name, region, access key and secret access key - you will need to provide them in the Amazon S3 endpoint settings.

• Bucket access permissions: The following bucket access permissions are required:

  {
  	"Version": "2012-10-17",
  	"Statement": [
  	    {
  	     "Sid": "Stmt1497347821000",
  	     "Effect": "Allow",
  	     "Action": [
                  "s3:GetBucketLocation",
                  "s3:ListBucket"
              ],
              "Resource": [
                  "arn:aws:s3:::YOUR_BUCKET_NAME"
              ]
          },
          {
              "Sid": "Stmt1497344984000",
              "Effect": "Allow",
              "Action": [
                  "s3:PutObject",
                  "s3:GetObject",
                  "s3:DeleteObject"
              ],
              "Resource": [
                  "arn:aws:s3:::YOUR_BUCKET_NAME/target_path",
                  "arn:aws:s3:::YOUR_BUCKET_NAME/target_path/*"
              ]
          }
      ]
  }
  

Where YOUR_BUCKET_NAME is the name of your bucket and target_path is the intended location of the target files in your bucket.