Exporting Data
The following figure provides an overview of how data is exported from Teradata Database to Amazon S3 through Teradata Parallel Transporter exporting operators and Teradata Access Module for Amazon S3.
The Teradata Parallel Transporter operators and the Teradata Access Module for Amazon S3 run on an EC2 instance.
Figure 14: Exporting Data
1 The Teradata Parallel Transporter exporting operators retrieve data from Teradata Database and transfer the data to Teradata Parallel Transporter DataConnector operator.
2 The Teradata Parallel Transporter DataConnector operator initiates a sequence of instructions to transfer the data to the Teradata Access Module for Amazon S3. This sequence of instructions includes the access module Initialize, File Open, File Write, File Close and Shutdown.
3 The Teradata Access Module for Amazon S3 writes the data into a File object inside Amazon S3.