# Parquet Format Output to S3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parquet-format-output-to-s3/216273>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 23, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parquet-format-output-to-s3/216273 "2020-01-23T14:47:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![stranjer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@stranjer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stranjer)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parquet-format-output-to-s3/216273/1 "2020-01-23T14:47:51Z")

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Is there a way to have Logstash output to an S3 bucket in Parquet format, preferably using Snappy compression?

I see there is an Avro codec but not Parquet one, and a Webhdfs output plugin that allows Snappy compression, but not sure if I can do anything between them and the S3 output plugin to get data into S3 in the particular format I would prefer.

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**Author:** ![stranjer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@stranjer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stranjer)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parquet-format-output-to-s3/216273/2 "2020-02-17T17:08:30Z")

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So I guess there is no option, and no one else has this use case.

This is unfortunate, since Parquet & ORC are the two columnar data formats recommended by AWS in their guide for improving Athena performance.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parquet-format-output-to-s3/216273/3 "2020-03-16T17:19:11Z")

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