diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-cloud/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/cloud/AbstractCloudIOManager.java b/asterixdb/asterix-cloud/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/cloud/AbstractCloudIOManager.java
index 2bafade..175a061 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-cloud/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/cloud/AbstractCloudIOManager.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-cloud/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/cloud/AbstractCloudIOManager.java
@@ -339,6 +339,10 @@
         cloudClient.write(bucket, key, bytes);
     }
 
+    public ICloudClient getCloudClient() {
+        return cloudClient;
+    }
+
     private Set<CloudFile> getCloudMetadataPartitionFiles() {
         String metadataNamespacePath = StoragePathUtil.getNamespacePath(nsPathResolver,
                 MetadataConstants.METADATA_NAMESPACE, METADATA_PARTITION);
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-cloud/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/cloud/clients/ICloudClient.java b/asterixdb/asterix-cloud/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/cloud/clients/ICloudClient.java
index fb50dc9..89f3c81 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-cloud/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/cloud/clients/ICloudClient.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-cloud/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/cloud/clients/ICloudClient.java
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
      *
      * @param bucket bucket
      * @param path   path
-     * @return bytes
+     * @return byte array containing the content, or <code>null</code> if the key does not exist
      * @throws HyracksDataException HyracksDataException
      */
     byte[] readAllBytes(String bucket, String path) throws HyracksDataException;