diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hedera/balanceFileLogger/BalanceFileHistoryLogger.java b/src/main/java/com/hedera/balanceFileLogger/BalanceFileHistoryLogger.java
index c6d5c35d13d..95830d664bd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hedera/balanceFileLogger/BalanceFileHistoryLogger.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hedera/balanceFileLogger/BalanceFileHistoryLogger.java
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ public static boolean processFile(File balanceFile) {
         
         try {
             // process the file
-            connect = DatabaseUtilities.openDatabase(connect);
+            connect = DatabaseUtilities.getConnection();
             
             if (connect != null) {
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hedera/balanceFileLogger/BalanceFileLogger.java b/src/main/java/com/hedera/balanceFileLogger/BalanceFileLogger.java
index 32a23b8a3b6..5b082b55b10 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hedera/balanceFileLogger/BalanceFileLogger.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hedera/balanceFileLogger/BalanceFileLogger.java
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
             File balanceFile = getLatestBalancefile(balanceFilesPath);
             if (balanceFile != null) {
                 // process the file
-                connect = DatabaseUtilities.openDatabase(connect);
+                connect = DatabaseUtilities.getConnection();
 
                 if (connect != null) {
 	                PreparedStatement insertBalance;
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hedera/databaseUtilities/DatabaseUtilities.java b/src/main/java/com/hedera/databaseUtilities/DatabaseUtilities.java
index 4f7ab88d91b..f0630d32d03 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hedera/databaseUtilities/DatabaseUtilities.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hedera/databaseUtilities/DatabaseUtilities.java
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@
 public class DatabaseUtilities {
     private static final Logger log = LogManager.getLogger("recordStream-log");
     static final Marker LOGM_EXCEPTION = MarkerManager.getMarker("EXCEPTION");
+    private static Connection connect = null;
 
-    public static Connection openDatabase(Connection connect) {
+    public static Connection getConnection() {
         if (connect == null) {
             try {
             	ConfigLoader configLoader = new ConfigLoader("./config/config.json");
@@ -34,8 +35,8 @@ public static Connection openDatabase(Connection connect) {
         return connect;
     }
 
-    public static Connection closeDatabase(Connection connect) throws SQLException {
+    public static void closeDatabase() throws SQLException {
         connect.close();
-        return null;
+        connect = null;
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hedera/downloader/Downloader.java b/src/main/java/com/hedera/downloader/Downloader.java
index ee6a6187a69..da50ad86886 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hedera/downloader/Downloader.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hedera/downloader/Downloader.java
@@ -447,4 +447,39 @@ protected static void setupCloudConnection() {
 		xfer_mgr = TransferManagerBuilder.standard()		
 				.withS3Client(s3Client).build();
 	}
+
+	protected void listObjects() {
+		ListObjectsRequest listRequest = new ListObjectsRequest()
+				.withBucketName(bucketName)
+				.withPrefix("eventstreams/")
+				.withDelimiter("/")
+				.withMaxKeys(100);
+		ObjectListing objects = s3Client.listObjects(listRequest);
+		try {
+			while (true) {
+				List<S3ObjectSummary> summaries = objects.getObjectSummaries();
+				for(S3ObjectSummary summary : summaries) {
+
+					String s3ObjectKey = summary.getKey();
+					System.out.println(s3ObjectKey);
+				}
+				if(objects.isTruncated()) {
+					objects = s3Client.listNextBatchOfObjects(objects);
+				}
+				else {
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+
+		} catch(AmazonServiceException e) {
+			// The call was transmitted successfully, but Amazon S3 couldn't process
+			// it, so it returned an error response.
+			log.error(MARKER, "Signatures download failed, Exception: {}", e.getStackTrace());
+		} catch(SdkClientException e) {
+			// Amazon S3 couldn't be contacted for a response, or the client
+			// couldn't parse the response from Amazon S3.
+			log.error(MARKER, "Signatures download failed, Exception: {}", e.getStackTrace());
+		}
+
+	}
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hedera/downloader/EventStreamDownloader.java b/src/main/java/com/hedera/downloader/EventStreamDownloader.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bba3aba7d6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hedera/downloader/EventStreamDownloader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package com.hedera.downloader;
+
+import com.hedera.configLoader.ConfigLoader;
+import com.hedera.parser.EventStreamFileParser;
+
+public class EventStreamDownloader extends Downloader {
+	public EventStreamDownloader(ConfigLoader configLoader) {
+		super(configLoader);
+	}
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		configLoader = new ConfigLoader("./config/config.json");
+		EventStreamDownloader downloader = new EventStreamDownloader(configLoader);
+		setupCloudConnection();
+		downloader.listObjects();
+
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hedera/parser/EventStreamFileParser.java b/src/main/java/com/hedera/parser/EventStreamFileParser.java
index 1b9ed92fe89..580be07a546 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hedera/parser/EventStreamFileParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hedera/parser/EventStreamFileParser.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.sql.Connection;
 import java.time.Instant;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ public class EventStreamFileParser {
 	static final byte STREAM_EVENT_START_WITH_VERSION = 0x5a;
 	static final byte commEventLast = 0x46;
 
+	private static Connection connect = null;
 
 	private static ConfigLoader configLoader;
 
@@ -221,12 +223,10 @@ static public void loadRecordFiles(List<String> fileNames) {
 	}
 
 	public static void main(String[] args) {
-		String pathName;
-
 		configLoader = new ConfigLoader("./config/config.json");
 
-		pathName = configLoader.getDefaultParseDir_EventStream();
-		log.info(MARKER, "EventStream files folder got from configuration file: {}", configLoader.getDefaultParseDir_EventStream());
+		String pathName = configLoader.getDefaultParseDir_EventStream();
+		log.info(MARKER, "EventStream files folder got from configuration file: {}", pathName);
 
 		if (pathName != null) {
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hedera/recordFileLogger/RecordFileLogger.java b/src/main/java/com/hedera/recordFileLogger/RecordFileLogger.java
index 348f33220c7..f56dbe49c32 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hedera/recordFileLogger/RecordFileLogger.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hedera/recordFileLogger/RecordFileLogger.java
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
 import java.sql.ResultSet;
 import java.sql.SQLException;
-import java.sql.Timestamp;
 import java.time.Instant;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ enum F_ENTITIES {
     }
     
 	public static boolean start() {
-        connect = DatabaseUtilities.openDatabase(connect);
+        connect = DatabaseUtilities.getConnection();
         if (connect == null) {
         	return false;
         }
@@ -117,7 +116,7 @@ public static boolean start() {
 	}
 	public static boolean finish() {
         try {
-            connect = DatabaseUtilities.closeDatabase(connect);
+            DatabaseUtilities.closeDatabase();
         	return false;
         } catch (SQLException e) {
             log.error(LOGM_EXCEPTION, "Exception {}", e);