# Dremio community edition running on Docker engine cannot view files in a S3 compliant object storage bucket

**URL:** <https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-community-edition-running-on-docker-engine-cannot-view-files-in-a-s3-compliant-object-storage-bucket/13329>\
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**Created:** [March 16, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-community-edition-running-on-docker-engine-cannot-view-files-in-a-s3-compliant-object-storage-bucket/13329 "2026-03-16T00:41:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![seemant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@seemant](https://community.dremio.com/u/seemant)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-community-edition-running-on-docker-engine-cannot-view-files-in-a-s3-compliant-object-storage-bucket/13329/1 "2026-03-16T00:41:17Z")

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I have installed Dremio community edition on a Docker engine running on a Linux instance. I am trying to connect to S3 compliant object storage bucket. I am able to successfully connect to the bucket but cannot see any of the files in the bucket and it gives an error empty bucket when i click on the bucket. And i am not able to find the logs to try to understand the issue. Appreciate any help in this regard.

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-community-edition-running-on-docker-engine-cannot-view-files-in-a-s3-compliant-object-storage-bucket/13329/2 "2026-03-19T16:18:02Z")

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@seemant Lets try to narrow down the issue, have you tried to read the bucket from inside the docker but outside of Dremio using something like AWS S3 CLI? Does that work?

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**Author:** ![seemant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@seemant](https://community.dremio.com/u/seemant)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 11:17pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-community-edition-running-on-docker-engine-cannot-view-files-in-a-s3-compliant-object-storage-bucket/13329/3 "2026-03-19T23:17:11Z")

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Hello @balaji.ramaswamy thanks for your inputs. Yes i am able to read the bucket from inside docker but outside of dremio using AWS S3 CLI.

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**Author:** ![seemant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@seemant](https://community.dremio.com/u/seemant)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-community-edition-running-on-docker-engine-cannot-view-files-in-a-s3-compliant-object-storage-bucket/13329/4 "2026-03-20T20:20:30Z")

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Hello @balaji.ramaswamy please let me know if you have any ideas to resolve the issue. Thanks

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-community-edition-running-on-docker-engine-cannot-view-files-in-a-s3-compliant-object-storage-bucket/13329/5 "2026-03-23T16:36:52Z")

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here is the docs page for adding S3 sources, make sure “ **Enable compatibility mode”** is checked

Also the server.log should have an error stack, can you please send the server.log having the error stack?