AWS-APPFLOW-DETAIL

AWS AppFlow managed SaaS-to-AWS data flows.

Definition

AWS AppFlow source connectors: Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, ServiceNow, Trend Micro, Zendesk, Datadog, SAP OData, Snowflake, Google Analytics, Singular, ~50 total. AWS destinations: S3, Redshift, RDS, EventBridge, Snowflake, Lookout for Metrics, SAP, Salesforce (bidirectional). Data transformation: Field mapping, filtering, masking, calculated fields, validation. Pricing: $0.001 per flow run + $0.02/GB data processed standard. Limit: up to 100M records per flow run.

Origin

AWS AppFlow announced and GA April 2020 by AWS ; Custom Connector SDK launched 2022 (Build custom connectors Java/Python) ; ongoing connector additions 2024.

Example in context

A retailer extracts daily Salesforce Opportunity data to S3 data lake via AWS AppFlow scheduled flow ; field mapping transformation, filtering closed-won only ; processing 50M records in 30 min.

Related terms

• AWS Glue — other AWS ETL.