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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 10, 2025

Canned S3 Adapter - support for the other providers like IBM cos, Pure storage etc.

Hi Chandra,


After extensive testing and research, I have found that the AWS S3 adapter is currently only suited to working with virtual-host-style endpoint URLs.


I'm noticing that the typical use case for the AWS S3 client adapter seems to be for buckets hosted on the AWS S3 service. Based on the documentation page, some support is also provided for Dell ECS and IBM Cloud Object Storage endpoints.


Since the adapter appears to be working as designed, I recommend submitting an idea on the idea lab to allow the AWS S3 client adapter to offer path-style bucket support.

https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas?project=B2BI


Thank you,

Rich Derr

What is your industry? Financial Markets
How will this idea be used?

Hi Chandra,


After extensive testing and research, I have found that the AWS S3 adapter is currently only suited to working with virtual-host-style endpoint URLs.


I'm noticing that the typical use case for the AWS S3 client adapter seems to be for buckets hosted on the AWS S3 service. Based on the documentation page, some support is also provided for Dell ECS and IBM Cloud Object Storage endpoints.


Since the adapter appears to be working as designed, I recommend submitting an idea on the idea lab to allow the AWS S3 client adapter to offer path-style bucket support.

https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas?project=B2BI


  • Admin
    Mark Allen
    Jul 16, 2025

    I'm going to close this idea as it's been a while without a response. If this is an error, please open a new idea.


    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations, and ideas.

  • Admin
    Mark Allen
    May 28, 2025

    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. I truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations and ideas.

    I need a little more information to understand your idea.

    • We don't fully understand the use case here -- can you point us to documentation that outlines using path-style S3 buckets?

    I'm looking forward to your response. Once I can develop a clear picture of your request, I'll be able to let you know if we can add your idea to our future offering roadmap.