The following are the Tetra Amazon S3 Connector release notes for versions 1.1.x. The Connector is a standalone, containerized application that uses the Pluggable Connector Framework to automatically uploads files (objects) and/or their metadata from your organization's Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets to the Tetra Data Platform (TDP) whenever an object is created. Amazon S3 is an object storage service that offers high scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

v1.1.0

Release date: 1 December 2025

What's New

TetraScience has released its next version of the Tetra Amazon S3 Connector, version 1.1.0. To help reduce data duplication and storage costs for customers, this release provides a new metadataOnly path configuration option that automatically indexes data in the Tetra Data Platform (TDP) without needing to upload it from Amazon S3. This feature is particularly useful for large files where only metadata is needed, or for creating searchable indexes of S3 objects without transferring the full file content to the TDP.

New Functionality

New functionality includes features not previously available in the Tetra Amazon S3 Connector.

Metadata Only Data Ingestion

To help reduce data duplication and storage costs for customers, a new metadataOnly path configuration provides customers the option to automatically catalog and index files in the TDP without uploading their full content from Amazon S3. This feature can be useful for compliance tracking, data discovery, and cost management purposes—or any time customers need to know what files exist, but don't need immediate access to their contents.

When the metadataOnly path configuration is set to "metadataOnly": true on a file scan path, the Connector uploads a 0-byte placeholder file with an .index suffix (for example, file.txt becomes file.txt.index) instead of the full file content, while preserving important file information, such as labels and Amazon S3 metadata.

Information Preserved

The following information is attached to indexed files as labels and Amazon S3 metadata:

• File path, name, and bucket information
• File size (in bytes and human-readable format)
• S3 object attributes (ETag, version ID, storage class, checksum)
• Last modified timestamp
• Content type and encoding information

For more information, see Configure the Connector in the Tetra Amazon S3 Connector v1.x Operational Guide.

Enhancements

Enhancements are modifications to existing functionality that improve performance or usability, but don't alter the function or intended use of the system.

• There are no enhancements in this release.

Bug fixes

The following bugs from the previous beta-release version of the Connector are now fixed:

• There are no bug fixes in this release.

Limitations

• The Connector only uploads files that change in the configured Amazon S3 bucket. Uploading files that are already in the bucket requires adding synthetic events to the queue.
• TetraScience supports configuring the TDP to use an Amazon S3 Gateway Endpoint. In this case, all S3 traffic is routed to that endpoint. If you're using an S3 Gateway Endpoint, then the Connector is restricted to only work with buckets in the same AWS Region as the TDP deployment.

Deprecated Features

There are no deprecated features in this release.

For more information about TDP deprecations, see Tetra Product Deprecation Notices.

Known and Possible Issues

There are no known issues for Tetra Amazon S3 Connector v1.1.0.

Upgrade Considerations

This version is compatible as a direct upgrade from Tetra Amazon S3 Connector v1.0.0. To upgrade the Connector, update the Docker image to version 1.1.0 and restart the container. No configuration changes are required unless you want to enable the new metadata-only ingestion mode.

For installation and configuration instructions, see the Tetra Amazon S3 Connector v1.x Operational Guide.

Other Release Notes

To view other Tetra Connector release notes, see Tetra Connector Release Notes.