Publishing events from the Inventory service to cloud storage solutions

You can subscribe to the Inventory service events and configure the events to be published to the cloud storage solution of your choice. These solutions are flexible, cost-effective, and scalable cloud storage for your unstructured data.

Before you begin

To use a cloud storage solution, complete the following prerequisites:

Create an account with the vendor you plan to use for events. Ensure that you subscribe to a plan that fits your requirements.
Note: Each event can be roughly 1.5 KB. A file can contain up to 1000 events or roughly 1.5 MB in file size. Use this estimate to determine how much space is needed.
Create buckets. Following are the suggested guidelines to create buckets:
- Create one bucket for each event or provide a prefix for each event.
- The bucket names must be unique. One guideline is to use the following naming convention for buckets:
```
<tenant name>-events-<environment>-<event type>
```
  For example,
```
tenant1-events-dev-1-demand-change
```
- The bucket names must conform to the vendor specific requirements.
- Learn how to download events from the buckets. Refer to the specific vendor below for more details.
- Implement a procedure to monitor failed events. For more information, see Retrieving failed events.

For more details about the contents of the files, see Event consumption using cloud object storage (COS).