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:
•Messaging - SNS - Publish message
•All Amazon EC Tasks
•All Amazon DynamoDB 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.
