ETL pipeline from AWS DynamoDB to Aurora PostgreSQL

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In a world where an ever-increasing amount of data is being gathered, companies often find themselves without the tools to optimally use the often unstructured data they’ve gathered. By trackit.io.

How can Company X manage to salvage the unstructured data it has gathered and still make use of it in a structured way? Solution: ETL pipeline — a pipeline that automatically Extracts data from their NoSQL database, Transforms it into a specific format suitable for exploitation and Loads it into a destination relational database.

The article then describes:

  • AWS services that allow you to clone and migrate data
  • Bridging the gap
  • A DynamoDB to Aurora ETL pipeline architecture
  • How the pipeline works
  • Data propagation
  • Lambda functions for Quality control

… and more. To get the schema of example ETL architecture and to learn pros and cons follow the link to the full article. Nice one!

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