Data Locker—storage setup

• The procedure in this section needs to be performed by your Google Cloud admin.
• You can delete files from Data Locker 25 or more hours after they were written. Don't delete them before. 

Information for the GCS admin

Data Locker is the AppsFlyer solution for streaming data to storage.

Requirements

• Create a bucket on GCS for the exclusive use of Data Locker. Exclusive means no other service writes data to the bucket. 
• Suggested bucket name: af-datalocker.
• Grant Data Locker permissions using the procedure that follows.

To grant Data Locker permissions:

In this procedure, substitute data-locker-example using the name of the bucket you previously created for Data Locker. 

1. Sign in to your GCS console.
2. Go to StorageStorage > Storage browser.
   

   

3. Select the bucket you previously created, for example, data-locker-example. 
4. Go to the Permissions tab. 
5. Click +Add.
   The Add members window opens.
6. Complete as follows:
   1. New members, paste the snippet that follows.

      af-data-delivery@af-raw-data.iam.gserviceaccount.com

   2. Select a role: Cloud storage > Storage Admin. 
      

      

7. Click Save. 

• The procedure in this section needs to be performed by your AWS admin.
• You can delete files from Data Locker 25 or more hours after they were written. Please don't delete them before. 

Information for the AWS Admin

Data Locker is the AppsFlyer solution for streaming data to storage.

Requirements

• Create an AWS bucket having the name af-datalocker-mybucket. The prefix af-datalocker- is mandatory. The suffix is free text.
• We suggest af-datalocker-yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-free-text. Where yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm is the current date and time, and you add any other text you want as depicted in the figure that follows.

User interface ins AWS console

After creating the bucket, grant AppsFlyer permissions using the procedure that follows. 

To create a bucket and grant AppsFlyer permissions: 

1. Sign in to the AWS console.
2. Go to the S3 service.
3. To create the bucket:
   1. Click Create bucket.
   2. Complete the Bucket name as follows: Start with af-datalocker- and then add any other text as described previously.
   3. Click Create bucket.
4. To grant AppsFlyer permissions:
   1. Select the bucket. 
   2. Go to the Permissions tab. 
   3. In the Bucket policy section, click Edit. 
      The Bucket policy window opens.
   4. Paste the following snippet into the window.

      {
        "Version": "2012-10-17",
        "Statement": [
          {
            "Sid": "AF_DataLocker_Direct",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
              "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::195229424603:user/product=datalocker__envtype=prod__ns=default"
            },
            "Action": [
              "s3:GetObject",
              "s3:ListBucket",
              "s3:DeleteObject",
              "s3:PutObject"
            ],
            "Resource": [
              "arn:aws:s3:::af-datalocker-my-bucket",
              "arn:aws:s3:::af-datalocker-my-bucket/*"
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
      

5. In the snippet, replace af-data-locker-my-bucket it with the bucket name you created.

6. Click Save changes.

7. Complete the Setup Data Locker procedure.