# S3 sink connector fails with "invalid version id specified" error

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**Category:** Apache Kafka Connectors\
**Tags:** kafka-connect, s3\
**Created:** [August 22, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/s3-sink-connector-fails-with-invalid-version-id-specified-error/420 "2025-08-22T08:48:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/s3-sink-connector-fails-with-invalid-version-id-specified-error/420/1 "2025-08-22T08:48:35Z")

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I have a s3 sink connector (10.0.0) configured to basically make a golden copy of my messages on our pure storage system. It runs but after a while it fails with the error

`„invalid version id specified (Service: S3, Status Code: 400, Request ID: null).`

Is this implying that the bucket must have versioning activated?

In the connector documentation I didn‘t find any information that this might be a requirement or is the error related to something totally different ?