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Today we are thrilled to announce Propel's Amazon S3 Data Source connector. The Amazon S3 Data Source enables you to power your customer-facing analytics from Parquet files in your Amazon S3 bucket. Whether you have a Data Lake in Amazon S3, are landing Parquet files in Amazon S3 as part of your data pipeline or event-driven architecture, or are extracting data using services like Airbyte or Fivetran, you can now define Metrics and query their data blazingly fast via Propel's GraphQL API.

Read the blog post: Introducing the Amazon S3 Data Source: Power customer-facing analytics from Parquet files in your S3 bucket.

Today, we are thrilled to introduce Propellers, an easy way for product development teams to select the optimal cost and query speed for their customer-facing analytics use cases.

Propellers are the unit of compute in Propel. The larger the Propeller, the faster the queries and the higher the cost. Every Propel Application (and therefore every set of API credentials) has a Propeller that determines the speed and cost of queries.

Read the blog post: Introducing Propellers: Easily select the optimal cost and query speed for each use case

Application scopes allow your client- or server-side app to access Propel resources. We’re now offering you greater control in restricting what an Application can or cannot do on your app’s behalf with OAuth 2.0 scopes.

Your app can request the following scopes:

• admin — The Application has read/write access to Data Sources, Data Pools, and Metrics within its Environment.
• metric:query — The Application can query Metrics within its Environment.
• metric:stats — The Application can query Metrics’ Dimension Statistics within its Environment.

When generating an access token for your app, you can choose which of these scopes to include. The example below uses curl to generate an access token with only the “metric:query” and “metric:stats” scopes. This ensures the generated access token can only query Metrics and Dimension Statistics, perfect for securing customer-facing apps.

curl https://auth.us-east-2.propeldata.com/oauth2/token \
  -d grant_type=client_credentials \
  -d client_id=$APPLICATION_ID \
  -d client_secret=$APPLICATION_SECRET \
  -d 'scope=metric:query metric:stats'

Applications can use any of the available scopes.

• You can now reconnect a Data Source if a connection failed.
• You can now introspect tables in a Data Source to get the latest tables and schemas.
• You can now see the query activity on the Metric detail page.
• The Dashboard now shows top queries by Applications and Metrics.
• You can now see the unique values for a Metric Dimension.