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Searching Amazon S3

Learned much on this journey, you have. Now it's time to test your connection with The Force Cribl Search. Your task is to connect to an Amazon S3 bucket and search the data within. Remember padawan, do or do not, there is no try (and as this is a guided sandbox there is no test or failing either).

Amazon S3 Dataset Provider​

As you already know, (because you were definitely paying attention and not multitasking), the first thing that we need to do is create a dataset provider so that we can connect to our Amazon S3 bucket.

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  1. Navigate to Data in the left navigation bar.
  2. Click Dataset Providers in the top navigation bar.
  3. Click Add Provider.
  4. In the ID field enter sbx_s3provider_<your first name>.
  5. In the Description field enter Search Sandbox S3.
  6. For the Dataset provider type select Amazon S3

The configuration parameters for a connection to Amazon S3 should appear.

Slow ya Role
  1. Ensure AssumeRole is selected.
  2. In the AssumeRole ARN field enter: 
    arn:aws:iam::498946618345:role/searchingformeaning
  3. In the External ID field enter: 
    whathappensinvegas
  4. Click Save.