Hi All,

It would be great to test on real AWS servers.

JB: Is there a doc on how those "credits" are consumed? What are the
factors leading to their use?

I echo the concern about overusing the AWS resources. I believe most of the
functionality can be tested with containerized S3 providers like Apache
Ozone.

Real AWS is probably needed only for validating AssumeRole requests and
making a small number of R/W calls. I believe it would be appropriate to
make a new test class / suite dedicated to this kind of integration
testing.RestCatalogS3IT, specifically, might be doing more than what is
minimally required to ensure AWS integration works.

I'm not up-to-date on Cloud Watch tests, but those may need to be included
too.

Cheers,
Dmitri.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM Alexandre Dutra <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi JB,
>
> That's a great idea, thanks for driving this! On our side, I agree
> with Robert that we should make sure we use these resources sparingly.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM Robert Stupp <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > That's great!
> >
> > As credentials (secrets) are required, we can use those from (trusted)
> > GH workflows, but not for PRs (`on: pull_request`).
> >
> > I think we should define what should be integration tested, when those
> > tests shall run and how/where the test results are published.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > During the last Polaris Community Meeting, we briefly discussed using
> > > "concrete" AWS instances of integration tests (especially for S3).
> > >
> > > As AWS is a sponsor of the ASF, AWS provides "credits" to ASF projects.
> > > The process to request/use AWS credits is to ask the ASF infra, who
> > > are the keeper of those credits. It all needs to go through Infra so
> > > that we (The ASF) can keep track of donations, for tax/non-profit
> > > purposes. Projects are discouraged from attempting to get that
> > > directly.
> > >
> > > So, if there are no objections, I will request credit for the Polaris
> > > podling at The ASF Infra.
> > > I will give you more "logistic details" about those credits (how to
> > > actually use them, etc).
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > JB
>

Reply via email to