Cloud storage destinations overview

Overview

Adobe Experience Platform can deliver your segments as data files to your cloud storage locations. This enables you to send audiences and their profile attributes to your internal systems, via CSV or tab-delimited files for Amazon S3, Azure Blob and SFTP. For Amazon Kinesis and Azure Event Hubs destinations, data is streamed out of Experience Platform in JSON format.

Supported cloud storage destinations

Adobe Experience Platform supports the following cloud storage destinations:

• Amazon Kinesis connection
• Amazon S3 connection
• Azure Blob connection
• Azure Event Hubs connection
• SFTP connection

Connect to a new cloud storage destination

To send segments to cloud storage destinations for your campaigns, Platform must first connect to the destination. See the destination creation tutorial for detailed information on setting up a new destination.

Using macros to create a folder in your storage location

To create a custom folder per segment file in your storage location, you can use macros in the folder path input field. Insert the macros at the end of the input field, as shown below.

The examples below reference a sample segment Luxury Audience with ID 25768be6-ebd5-45cc-8913-12fb3f348615.

Macro 1: %SEGMENT_NAME%

Input: acme/campaigns/2021/%SEGMENT_NAME%
Folder path in your storage location: acme/campaigns/2021/Luxury Audience

Macro 2: %SEGMENT_ID%

Input: acme/campaigns/2021/%SEGMENT_ID%
Folder path in your storage location: acme/campaigns/2021/25768be6-ebd5-45cc-8913-12fb3f348615

Macro 3: %SEGMENT_NAME%/%SEGMENT_ID%

Input: acme/campaigns/2021/%SEGMENT_NAME%/%SEGMENT_ID%
Folder path in your storage location: acme/campaigns/2021/Luxury Audience/25768be6-ebd5-45cc-8913-12fb3f348615

Data export type

Cloud storage destinations support Profile-based export. This means that you are exporting details about the individuals in the audience. These details are needed for personalization and can include attributes, events, segment memberships, and more.