To access your data in IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS), create a connection asset for it.
IBM Cloud Object Storage on IBM Cloud provides unstructured data storage for cloud applications. Cloud Object Storage offers S3 API and application binding with regional and cross-regional resiliency.
Create a connection to IBM Cloud Object Storage
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If you have set up an integrated cloud service, select the service instance to automatically fill in the fields in the connection form. Confirm that all the fields are complete.
To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:
Bucket name. (Optional. If you do not enter the bucket name, then the credentials must have permission to list all the buckets.)
Click the Cloud Object Storage service. From the menu, select Endpoints.
Optional: Use the Select resiliency and Select location menus to filter the choices.
Copy the value of the public endpoint that is in the same region as the bucket that you want to use.
SSL certificate: (Optional). A self-signed certificate that was created by a tool such as OpenSSL.
Credentials
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Use one of the following combination of values for authentication:
Service credentials
Resource instance ID and API key
Resource instance ID, API key, Access key, and Secret key (In this combination, the Resource instance ID and API key are used for authentication.
The Access key and Secret key are stored.)
You can use IBM Cloud Object Storage connections in the following workspaces and tools:
Projects
AutoAI
Data Refinery
Decision Optimization
SPSS Modeler
Synthetic Data Generator
Catalogs
Platform assets catalog
Connecting to the Cloud Object Storage service with the S3 API
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To connect to Cloud Object Storage with the S3 API, you need the Login URL, an Access key and a Secret key.
The API key is a token that is used to call the Watson IoT Platform HTTP APIs. Users are assigned roles and they can generate an API key that they can use to authorize calls to API endpoints. For more information, see the
IBM Cloud Object Storage S3 API documentation.
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