Set up Amazon S3 sink connector

Copy the following JSON and paste it in a new file. Replace the placeholder strings with values that correspond to your Amazon MSK cluster's bootstrap servers connection string and the cluster's subnet and security group IDs. For information about how to set up a service execution role, see IAM roles and policies for MSK Connect.

{
    "connectorConfiguration": {
        "connector.class": "io.confluent.connect.s3.S3SinkConnector",
        "s3.region": "us-east-1",
        "format.class": "io.confluent.connect.s3.format.json.JsonFormat",
        "flush.size": "1",
        "schema.compatibility": "NONE",
        "topics": "my-test-topic",
        "tasks.max": "2",
        "partitioner.class": "io.confluent.connect.storage.partitioner.DefaultPartitioner",
        "storage.class": "io.confluent.connect.s3.storage.S3Storage",
        "s3.bucket.name": "my-test-bucket"
    },
    "connectorName": "example-S3-sink-connector",
    "kafkaCluster": {
        "apacheKafkaCluster": {
            "bootstrapServers": "<cluster-bootstrap-servers-string>",
            "vpc": {
                "subnets": [
                    "<cluster-subnet-1>",
                    "<cluster-subnet-2>",
                    "<cluster-subnet-3>"
                ],
                "securityGroups": ["<cluster-security-group-id>"]
            }
        }
    },
    "capacity": {
        "provisionedCapacity": {
            "mcuCount": 2,
            "workerCount": 4
        }
    },
    "kafkaConnectVersion": "2.7.1",
    "serviceExecutionRoleArn": "<arn-of-a-role-that-msk-connect-can-assume>",
    "plugins": [
        {
            "customPlugin": {
                "customPluginArn": "<arn-of-custom-plugin-that-contains-connector-code>",
                "revision": 1
            }
        }
    ],
    "kafkaClusterEncryptionInTransit": {"encryptionType": "PLAINTEXT"},
    "kafkaClusterClientAuthentication": {"authenticationType": "NONE"}
}

Run the following AWS CLI command in the folder where you saved the JSON file in the previous step.

aws kafkaconnect create-connector --cli-input-json file://connector-info.json

The following is an example of the output that you get when you run the command successfully.

{
    "ConnectorArn": "arn:aws:kafkaconnect:us-east-1:123450006789:connector/example-S3-sink-connector/abc12345-abcd-4444-a8b9-123456f513ed-2", 
    "ConnectorState": "CREATING", 
    "ConnectorName": "example-S3-sink-connector"
}