Create an Amazon S3 sink connector by Aiven from Apache Kafka®#

The Apache Kafka Connect® S3 sink connector by Aiven enables you to move data from an Aiven for Apache Kafka® cluster to Amazon S3 for long term storage.

Note

There are two versions of S3 sink connector available with Aiven for Apache Kafka Connect®: one is developed by Aiven, another developed by Confluent. This article uses the Aiven version. The S3 sink connector by Confluent is discussed in a dedicated page.

Note

You can check the full set of available parameters and configuration options in the connector’s documentation.

Prerequisites#

To setup the S3 sink connector by Aiven, you need an Aiven for Apache Kafka® service with Apache Kafka Connect enabled or a dedicated Aiven for Apache Kafka Connect cluster.

Furthermore you need to follow the steps to prepare the AWS account and S3 sink and collect the following information about the target S3 bucket upfront:

  • AWS_S3_NAME: The name of the S3 bucket

  • AWS_S3_REGION: The AWS region where the S3 bucket has been created

  • AWS_USER_ACCESS_KEY_ID: The AWS user access key ID

  • AWS_USER_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: The AWS user secret access key

Tip

If you want to secure your Kafka Connect to S3 using AWS Assume role credentials, check out the dedicated article.

Setup an S3 sink connector with Aiven CLI#

The following example demonstrates how to setup an Apache Kafka Connect® S3 sink connector using the Aiven CLI dedicated command.

Define a Kafka Connect® configuration file#

Define the connector configurations in a file (we’ll refer to it with the name s3_sink.json) with the following content:

{
    "name": "<CONNECTOR_NAME>",
    "connector.class": "io.aiven.kafka.connect.s3.AivenKafkaConnectS3SinkConnector",
    "key.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.converters.ByteArrayConverter",
    "value.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.converters.ByteArrayConverter",
    "topics": "<TOPIC_NAME>",
    "aws.access.key.id": "<AWS_USER_ACCESS_KEY_ID>",
    "aws.secret.access.key": "<AWS_USER_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>",
    "aws.s3.bucket.name": "<AWS_S3_NAME>",
    "aws.s3.region": "<AWS_S3_REGION>"
}

The configuration file contains the following entries:

  • name: The connector name

  • topics: The list of Apache Kafka® topics to sink to the S3 bucket

  • key.converter and value.converter: Data converters, depending on the topic data format. Check the GitHub repository documentation for more information

  • aws.access.key.id: The AWS user access key ID

  • aws.secret.access.key: The AWS user secret access key

  • aws.s3.bucket.name: The name of the S3 bucket

  • aws.s3.region: The AWS region where the S3 bucket has been created

Tip

You can define S3 sink connector naming and data formats by setting the dedicated parameters.

Check out the GitHub repository parameters documentation for the full list of configuration options.

Create an S3 sink connector with Aiven CLI#

To create the connector, execute the following Aiven CLI command, replacing the SERVICE_NAME with the name of the existing Aiven for Apache Kafka® service where the connector needs to run:

avn service connector create SERVICE_NAME @s3_sink.json

Check the connector status with the following command, replacing the SERVICE_NAME with the existing Aiven for Apache Kafka® service and the CONNECTOR_NAME with the name of the connector defined before:

avn service connector status SERVICE_NAME CONNECTOR_NAME

With the connection in place, verify that the data is flowing to the target S3 bucket.

Example: define a S3 sink connector#

The example creates an S3 sink connector with the following properties:

  • connector name: my_s3_sink

  • source topics: students

  • target S3 bucket name: my-test-bucket

  • target S3 bucket region: eu-central-1

  • AWS user access key id: AKIAXXXXXXXXXX

  • AWS user secret access key: hELuXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The connector configuration is the following:

{
    "name": "my_s3_sink",
    "connector.class": "io.aiven.kafka.connect.s3.AivenKafkaConnectS3SinkConnector",
    "key.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.converters.ByteArrayConverter",
    "value.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.converters.ByteArrayConverter",
    "topics": "students",
    "aws.access.key.id": "AKIAXXXXXXXXXX",
    "aws.secret.access.key": "hELuXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "aws.s3.bucket.name": "my-test-bucket",
    "aws.s3.region": "eu-central-1"
}

With the above configuration stored in a s3_sink.json file, you can create the connector in the demo-kafka instance with:

avn service connector create demo-kafka @s3_sink.json