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S3 Backup device using EC2 IAM role

lappy39

We're in the process of POC'ing backups in AWS to S3 via DP 23.4. The GUI asks for an Access Key and Secret Key, but we have currently configured access to the S3 bucket via an IAM role assigned to the EC2 instance directly. In other words, we do not access the bucket with keys.

We can access the bucket from the Cell Manager via the AWS cli, but not the DP GUI.

So the question is, does DP support backups to S3 via IAM roles vs Keys? 

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    Hi Lappy39,

    This is Carlos and I'm Open Text support engineer.

    According to Data Protector documentation, for now it seems IAM roles is not supported, because the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key are needed as part of the prerequisites:

    To use AWS S3 targets, you must meet the following prerequisites:

    You must have AWS account. For more information, see Amazon S3.
    You must have the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for your AWS account. These keys are needed while creating the Data Protector Amazon S3 device, as a part of the process of providing credentials.
    The system time must be set accurately to ensure proper synchronization between the gateway host and Amazon S3.

    docs.microfocus.com/.../AmazonS3

    Best regards,

    Carlos Rojas

    Open Text / Data Protector Support Engineer

    Although I am an OpenText employee, I am speaking for myself and not for OpenText.

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    Thanks Carlos!

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