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# Amazon S3

> Archive Policy Gateway events in an Amazon S3 bucket as JSON objects for long-term retention.

Archive Policy Gateway events in an Amazon S3 bucket. One JSON object per event — good for long-term retention and downstream Athena / Snowflake / BigQuery analysis.

## Configure

| Field                  | Value                            |
| ---------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| Type                   | Amazon S3                        |
| Bucket                 | e.g. `my-policy-logs`            |
| Region                 | e.g. `us-east-1`                 |
| Access Key ID          | AWS access key                   |
| Secret Access Key      | AWS secret                       |
| Prefix                 | Default `policy-gateway/`        |
| Server-Side Encryption | Optional — `AES256` or `aws:kms` |
| KMS Key ID             | Only when SSE is `aws:kms`       |

## Object layout

```text theme={"system"}
s3://<bucket>/policy-gateway/
  date=2026-04-20/
    <event_id>.json
```

One event per JSON object, partitioned by date.

## Query with Athena

```sql theme={"system"}
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE ai_audit (
  event_id string,
  event_type string,
  policy_id string,
  decision string,
  effective_decision string,
  enforced boolean,
  rollout_mode string,
  reason_code string,
  policy_target string,
  project_id string,
  model string,
  triggered_categories array<string>,
  denylist_hits array<string>,
  allowlist_hits array<string>
)
PARTITIONED BY (date string)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.openx.data.jsonserde.JsonSerDe'
LOCATION 's3://<bucket>/policy-gateway/';
```

See the full field list in [connectors](/policy-gateway/connectors).