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Wherobots Cloud has three places to store files. Each one fits a different kind of file.

Where to store each kind of file

My Files

My Files is your personal file area, one per region. Your notebook opens in it, and what you save there is kept across session restarts. You can also reach it from the Files page in File Explorer and from the Wherobots CLI. My Files replaces the Wherobots File System. Files in your earlier notebook home folder are not moved into My Files for you; see If you used notebooks before My Files. My Files is private to you. For how My Files works, see File Explorer.

Wherobots Managed Storage

Wherobots provides out-of-the-box, managed storage for your geospatial datasets and Havasu tables, accessible from your notebooks and jobs with WherobotsDB. You can browse and manage the contents of your Wherobots Managed Storage with the Storage page in Wherobots Cloud in Wherobots Cloud. Wherobots Managed Storage allows you to see the file and directory structure of your data warehouse on Wherobots Cloud.
Managed Storage

Note

You can also use Wherobots Managed Storage to upload files and data for your spatial analytics tasks.

User specific folders

The folders with the name of customer-XXXX/ are unique to each account. The files and folders within customer-XXXX/ folders can only be accessed by the account holder.

Organization-wide shared folders

Folders named shared/ grant access to everyone within your Organization. Any member of the Organization can create new folders, delete existing ones, and have the privileges to read, write, upload, and delete files within this shared folder.

Copy a file or folder’s S3 Path

If needed, you can copy the direct S3 path for your directory and files by clicking on the “copy” icon on the right-hand side of each displayed folder or file.

Folder permissions

The following top-level folders are read-only, indicating that it is not possible to create new folders, upload files, or delete any existing folders:
  • / (root)
  • /data/
The following folders are where the user can create new folders, upload files, or delete any file within them:
  • /data/customer-XXXX
  • /data/shared
  • /spark-logs
The /spark-logs folder allows read and write permissions, but it is recommended that users refrain from tampering with the logs, as it may affect their experience.
For more information, see Managed Storage.

S3 Storage integration

Wherobots’ integration with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) allows Amazon S3 customers to utilize Wherobots as the spatial engine that operates on their data while still using Amazon S3 for their data storage. If you need to upload large files or more complex folder structures like partitioned Parquet files, consider integrating your existing S3 Storage buckets. For more information, see S3 Storage integration.
A storage integration is not a catalog. Creating a storage integration connects Wherobots to your S3 bucket, but it doesn’t expose your data as a queryable catalog. To query the data, create a catalog from the bucket in the Data Hub: click Add Catalog, then choose your storage under Catalog in. See Create a Managed Catalog.