# Upload to cloud storage

Publish / objectstore

put to S3, GCS, Azure Blob, HDFS, FTP, SFTP

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/upload-to-cloud-storage>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#upload-to-cloud-storage)

## Variants

- Write metadata to stored objects: Set custom metadata on objects in a store or catalogue, leaving their contents alone.
- [Upload files to a remote store](https://meridian.online/operations/upload-to-cloud-storage/upload-files-to-a-remote-store): Copy files that already exist on disk, or earlier artifacts, to an object store, file server or drive.
- Write the result to cloud storage: Write the pipeline's rows as a file in an object store or on a remote file server, in a chosen format.

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 86.2% of 312 rows (exact class, version 2).

- Azure Data Factory: [`Copy activity sink data stores: File (family)`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/connector-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Cloud file storage output connectors (family)`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/designer-tools-list.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Duckle: [`Azure Blob Storage`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/website/docs/components.html) (read 2026-09-25)
- Duckle: [`Copy Artifact`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/frontend/src/workflow-ui/palette-data.ts) (read 2026-09-25)
- Duckle: [`File Transfer`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/website/docs/components.html) (read 2026-09-25)
- Duckle: [`Hugging Face dataset`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/frontend/src/workflow-ui/palette-data.ts) (read 2026-09-25)
- Duckle: [`Object Storage sinks via the httpfs extension (family)`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/frontend/src/workflow-ui/palette-data.ts) (read 2026-09-25)
- AWS Glue: [`s3 connection type (sink)`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-programming-etl-connect.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Put a file with FTP`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/ftpput.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Put a file with SFTP`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/sftpput.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`SFTP Put`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/sftpput.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache NiFi: [`Object and file store put processors (family)`](https://nifi.apache.org/components/) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`OpenRefine project archive to Google Drive...`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/exporting#export-a-project) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Catalog Output`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`SFTP Put`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Write metadata to HCP objects`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Cloud storage Write operators (family)`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/index.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Write SFTP`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Operator%20Toolbox/data_access/write_sftp.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Tableau Prep: [`Amazon S3`](https://help.tableau.com/current/prep/en-us/prep_save_share.htm) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`File store output components (family)`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/About) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`File store put components (family)`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/About) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tMongoDBGridFSPut`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/mongodb/mongodb-component) (read 2026-09-27)
