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Cloud Integrations provides a native integration with cross-cloud systems to unlock data products at the speed your business needs them.

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Why Cloud Integrations?

Cloud Integrations addresses the following common data challenges:
  • IT limitations — IT alone cannot realize the full potential of data. A broad, inclusive approach across all lines of business (LOBs) is needed, and not all valuable data is under IT control.
  • Increased stress and time constraints — Business users demand timely access to data products, increasing the pressure to deliver.
  • Rigidity and friction in data processes — Rigid processes and tooling prevent the quick building of flexible databases, requiring too much time and effort.

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Required Grants

After Cloud Integrations is enabled for your Domo environment, you can assign the following Cloud Integrations grants to manage access to these features:
  • Manage Cloud Accounts — Allows you to add or remove cloud accounts, manage the tables exposed by a cloud account, and choose which cloud integration a new DataSet uses (selected from Domo or any cloud integration that has been shared with you). This grant does not allow you to change the instance-wide default storage cloud in Admin > Features > Cloud Integrations. Requires the Manage DataSet grant.
  • Override Default Cloud — Allows you to change the instance-wide default storage cloud in Admin > Features > Cloud Integrations. This grant does not allow you to change which cloud integration an individual new DataSet uses. Requires the Edit DataSet or Manage DataSet grant.

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Setup

If you’re on a consumption agreement, you can access Cloud Integrations from the Data Center. If not, contact your Domo account team to enable it for your instance. Once enabled, an Admin can assign the grants described above to the appropriate users before they begin connecting providers. After Cloud Integrations is enabled for your account, you can connect your existing data warehouses. Select a provider in the table below for its setup documentation. The Cloud Integrations panel in the Data Warehouse, showing connected integrations The Create a Cloud Integration modal showing all available provider tiles

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Set a Default Storage Cloud

You can specify a default storage account for all DataSets. Changing this setting does not affect existing DataSets or DataFlows — it applies only to new assets.
Before you begin: You need the Override Default Cloud grant.
Note: We recommend setting up your Cloud Integrations connections using a service account.
  1. In the Domo navigation header, select More > Admin. The Admin Settings page opens.
  2. Under Features, select Cloud Integrations. The Cloud Integrations page opens.
  3. Select an option from the Select the default storage cloud dropdown.

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Best Practices

Configure all connected databases to use UTC as their time zone. When a database uses a non-UTC time zone, Domo may apply an additional time zone shift on top of the database’s own offset, causing day-over-day, week-over-week, and year-over-year comparisons to return incorrect data. Databases using non-UTC time zones can also cause discrepancies between data viewed in Domo and data queried directly from the same source in other tools.

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Federated Data vs. Cloud Integrations

The table below compares federated data to Cloud Integrations read and read/write configurations:
Note: DataSet View support for Cloud Integrations DataSets is limited:
  • ✅ Supported: DataSet Views (Standard Views and SQL Views) that join Cloud Integrations DataSets from the same cloud connection.
  • ❌ Not supported: DataSet Views that join a Cloud Integrations DataSet with a Domo DataSet (a standard Domo DataSet) or with a Cloud Integrations DataSet from a different cloud connection.
When creating a DataSet View, make sure every DataSet in the join is a Cloud Integrations DataSet from the same cloud connection.
Note: Custom fiscal calendars are not loaded automatically when you add a new Cloud Integration. If your instance uses a custom fiscal calendar, contact Domo Support to have it loaded on the new integration.

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Share a Cloud Integrations Account

If you own a Cloud Integrations connection, you can share access to the integration and associated account so that others can help with governance of the account and underlying data. There are different levels of access available, depending on your use case. The following table can help you determine the right level of access to grant: Follow these steps to share a Cloud Integrations account:
  1. In the Domo navigation bar, select Data, then select Accounts from the left sidebar. The Accounts page showing the Service Accounts list
  2. Find the account you want to share and select the Wrench icon on the right. The options menu appears. The wrench icon menu open showing Account sharing
  3. Select Account sharing. The Manage [account name] access modal opens. The Manage access modal with People with Access and People without Access sections
  4. Find the person or group you want to share with and use the dropdown to choose the access level. The table above can help you decide the appropriate level. The access level dropdown open showing all available roles
  5. Select Apply to save your changes.

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Technical FAQ

Find answers to frequently asked questions about general topics and external cloud storage. For caching and data freshness questions, see Configure Data Freshness and Caching in Cloud Integrations.

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General

Cloud Integrations DataSets operate the same as Domo DataSets. Additionally, Magic ETL can trigger the DataFlow to run when the data is updated in your database.By default, Domo checks the database metadata for updates every 15 minutes.
Magic ETL v2 supports Cloud Integrations DataSets.
You can designate DataSets created via Cloud Integrations as published DataSets to create a virtualized DataSet in a subscriber organization. You can then use the virtualized subscriber DataSet as an input to Magic ETL transformations and configure it for DataSet Alerts.You can also use DataSets created via Cloud Integrations with Domo Everywhere Embed.
No.
Not currently. Support for additional locales is planned for a future release. In the meantime, we recommend setting your locale to en-US when using Cloud Integrations.
Old dates may shift by one hour due to daylight saving time (DST) adjustments. Domo ensures correct time zone conversions for dates on or after January 1, 1970. For dates before that, time zone adjustments may be inaccurate depending on when daylight saving time was adopted in the relevant time zone.
When a Cloud Integrations DataSet is backed by a database View (rather than a table), Domo does not display a row count or a last updated date. External cloud databases do not expose row counts or modification timestamps for Views the same way they do for tables, so Domo has no value to surface. This is expected behavior and does not affect the DataSet’s ability to power cards or DataFlows.

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External Cloud Storage

Find answers to frequently asked questions about using Cloud Integrations with external cloud storage accounts.
Not at this time.
Not at this time.
Data Caching is available for Cloud Integrations DataSets. For more information, see Configure Data Freshness and Caching in Cloud Integrations.
Yes, Domo operates on your cloud warehouse account.
The method Domo uses to access a cloud warehouse account depends on the warehouse. We recommend using a system or service account, rather than individual user accounts, to grant Domo access to all cloud warehouses. See the provider setup guides for details on how Domo accesses each provider.
Yes. By default, you have access to both Domo’s proprietary Adrenaline engine and the Cloud Integrations engine. You can configure your Domo environment so that only the Cloud Integrations DataSets are allowed to run in your Domo environment, but you need to contact Domo Support to configure this.
For existing DataSets created via a connector or Domo APIs, contact Domo Support to move them to your cloud provider. If those DataSets were created via some other method, you need to recreate those in your cloud provider manually.
Domo’s APIs can be used with any DataSet in a Domo-managed database, as long as that table is in the Domo-managed database that was configured during the write integration step of your Cloud Integrations setup. Customer-managed databases that exist in the cloud, which Domo can read but not write to, cannot be updated with Domo APIs.This includes the Stream API, webhooks, custom apps that generate new data such as Form Builder, and managing a DataSet via the DataSet API (such as updating a DataSet, managing personalized data permissions (PDP) policies, changing the owner of a DataSet, exporting a DataSet).For a more comprehensive guide to using the DataSet API, see the DataSet API reference.