Connect S3 to Redshift

with open-source ELT

Extract and load (ELT) your S3 data into Redshift in minutes with our open-source data integration connector.

Eliminate the time you spend on building and maintaining your data pipelines by integrating your data with Airbyte instead.
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Start analyzing your S3 data in minutes

1

Select your source

Just authenticate your S3 account and destination, and your new Redshift data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

2

Select your destination

Connect to Redshift or one of 50+ Airbyte data sources through simple account authentication

3

Sync your Data

This includes selecting the data you want to extract - streams and columns -, the sync frequency, where in Redshift you want that data to be loaded.

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Ship more quickly with the only solution that fits ALL your needs.

As your tools and edge cases grow, you deserve an extensible and open ELT solution that eliminates the time you spend on building and maintaining data pipelines

Leverage the largest catalog of  connectors

Airbyte’s catalog of 300+ pre-built, no-code connectors is the largest in the industry and is doubling every year, thanks to its open-source community, while closed-source catalogs have plateaued.

Cover your custom needs with our extensibility

Build custom connectors in 10 min with our Connector Development Kit (CDK), and get them maintained by us or our community. Add them to Airbyte to enable your whole team to leverage them.
Customize ANY Airbyte connectors to address Your custom needs. Our connector’s code is open-source, so you can edit it as you see fit.

Reliability at every level

Airbyte ensure your team’s time is no longer time spent on maintenance with our reliability SLAs on our GA connectors.
Airbyte will also give you visibility and control of your data freshness at the stream level for all your connections.

It’s never been easier to integrate your S3 data into Redshift

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Keep your data engineering costs in check

Building and maintaining custom connectors have become 5x easier with Airbyte. Enable your data engineering teams to focus on projects that are more valuable to your business.
Leverage all the alpha and beta connectors for free on Airbyte Cloud with our Free Connector Program.

Get Airbyte hosted where you need it to be

Airbyte helps you deploy your pipelines in production with two deployment options for the data plane:
  • Airbyte Cloud: Have it hosted by us, with all the security you need (SOC2, ISO, GDPR, HIPAA Conduit).
  • Airbyte Enterprise: Have it hosted within your own infrastructure, so your data and secrets never leave it.

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With an average response rate of 10 minutes or less and a Customer Satisfaction score of 96/100, our team is ready to support your data integration journey all over the world.

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FAQs

What is ETL?

ETL, an acronym for Extract, Transform, Load, is a vital data integration process. It involves extracting data from diverse sources, transforming it into a usable format, and loading it into a database, data warehouse or data lake. This process enables meaningful data analysis, enhancing business intelligence.

What is S3?

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud-based object storage service that provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, and scalable storage for their data. It allows users to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web, making it easy to build and scale applications, backup and archive data, and analyze data. S3 is designed to provide high availability and durability, with data automatically replicated across multiple availability zones within a region. It also offers a range of features such as versioning, lifecycle policies, and access control to help users manage their data effectively.

What is Redshift?

A fully managed data warehouse service in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, Amazon Redshift is designed for storage and analysis of large-scale datasets. Redshift allows businesses to scale from a few hundred gigabytes to more than a petabyte (a million gigabytes), and utilizes ML techniques to analyze queries, offering businesses new insights from their data. Users can query and combine exabytes of data using standard SQL, and easily save their query results to their S3 data lake.

What data can you extract from S3?

Amazon S3's API provides access to a wide range of data types, including:

1. Object data: This includes the actual files stored in S3 buckets, such as images, videos, documents, and other types of files.
2. Metadata: S3 stores metadata about each object, including information such as the object's size, creation date, and last modified date.
3. Access control data: S3 provides access control mechanisms to restrict access to objects in a bucket. The API provides access to information about access control policies and permissions.
4. Bucket data: S3 buckets are containers for objects. The API provides access to information about buckets, such as their names, creation dates, and region.
5. Logging data: S3 can log access requests to objects in a bucket. The API provides access to these logs, which can be used for auditing and compliance purposes.
6. Inventory data: S3 can generate inventory reports that provide information about the objects stored in a bucket. The API provides access to these reports.
7. Metrics data: S3 can generate metrics about the usage of a bucket, such as the number of requests and the amount of data transferred. The API provides access to these metrics.

How do I transfer data from S3 to Redshift?

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps: 
1. Set up S3 as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
2. Set up Redshift as a destination connector
3. Define which data you want to transfer and how frequently
You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud. 

What are top ETL tools to extract data from

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from S3 to Redshift include:
- Airbyte
- Fivetran
- StitchData
- Matillion
- Talend Data Integration
These tools help in extracting data from S3 and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into Redshift and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.

What is ELT?

ELT, standing for Extract, Load, Transform, is a modern take on the traditional ETL data integration process. In ELT, data is first extracted from various sources, loaded directly into a data warehouse, and then transformed. This approach enhances data processing speed, analytical flexibility and autonomy.

Difference between ETL and ELT?

ETL and ELT are critical data integration strategies with key differences. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) transforms data before loading, ideal for structured data. In contrast, ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) loads data before transformation, perfect for processing large, diverse data sets in modern data warehouses. ELT is becoming the new standard as it offers a lot more flexibility and autonomy to data analysts.

S3 to Redshift in minutes.

ETL your S3 data into Redshift, in minutes, for free, with our open-source data integration connectors. In the format you need with post-load transformation.

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connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
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and
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Select the S3 data that you want to replicate.

The S3 source connector can be used to sync the following tables:

Overview
The S3 source enables syncing of file-based tables with support for multiple files using glob-like pattern matching, and both Full Refresh and Incremental syncs, using the last_modified property of files to determine incremental batches.

About S3

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud-based object storage service that provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, and scalable storage for their data. It allows users to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web, making it easy to build and scale applications, backup and archive data, and analyze data. S3 is designed to provide high availability and durability, with data automatically replicated across multiple availability zones within a region. It also offers a range of features such as versioning, lifecycle policies, and access control to help users manage their data effectively.

Start analyzing your S3 data in minutes with the right data transformation

airbyte data transformation screenshot

Full control over the data

You select the data you want to replicate, and this for each destination you want to replicate your

S3

data to.

Normalized schemas

You can opt for getting the raw data, or to explode all nested API objects in separate tables.

Custom transformation via dbt

You can add any dbt transformation model you want and even sequence them in the order you need, so you get the data in the exact format you need at your cloud data warehouse, lake or data base.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Redshift needs

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Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates to

Redshift

.

play
Replicate Salesforce data to Snowflake with incremental

Manual full refresh

Easily re-sync all your data when

Redshift

has been desynchronized from the data source.

Change Data Capture for databases

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Redshift

A fully managed data warehouse service in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, Amazon Redshift is designed for storage and analysis of large-scale datasets. Redshift allows businesses to scale from a few hundred gigabytes to more than a petabyte (a million gigabytes), and utilizes ML techniques to analyze queries, offering businesses new insights from their data. Users can query and combine exabytes of data using standard SQL, and easily save their query results to their S3 data lake.

Why Choose Airbyte for your S3 and Redshift data integration

Airbyte is the new open-source ETL platform, and enables you to replicate your

S3

data in the destination of your choice, in minutes.

Maintenance-free

Heading

connector

Just authenticate your S3 account and destination, and your new S3 data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

Extensible as open-sourced

With Airbyte, you can easily adapt the open-source S3 ETL connector to your exact needs. All connectors are open-sourced.

No more security compliance issues​

Use Airbyte’s open-source edition to test your data pipeline without going through 3rd-party services. This will make your security team happy.

Normalized schemas​

Engineers can opt for raw data, analysts for normalized schemas. Airbyte offers several options that you can leverage with dbt.

Orchestration & scheduling​

Airbyte integrates with your existing stack. It can run with Airflow & Kubernetes and more are coming.

Monitoring & alerts on your terms​

Delays happen. We log everything and let you know when issues arise. Use our webhook to get notifications the way you want.

S3 To Redshift in minutes

ETL your S3 data into Redshift, in minutes, for free, with our open-source data integration connectors. In the format you need with post-load transformation.

We don't support the
S3
connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
We don't support the
Redshift
connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
We don't support the
S3
and
Redshift
connectors yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize them, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your S3 database needs.

Full control over the data

The 

S3

 source does not alter the schema present in your database. Depending on the destination connected to this source, however, the schema may be altered.

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Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates.

Log-based incremental replication

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About S3

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud-based object storage service that provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, and scalable storage for their data. It allows users to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web, making it easy to build and scale applications, backup and archive data, and analyze data. S3 is designed to provide high availability and durability, with data automatically replicated across multiple availability zones within a region. It also offers a range of features such as versioning, lifecycle policies, and access control to help users manage their data effectively.

Start analyzing your S3 data in minutes with the right data transformation

airbyte data transformation screenshot

Full control over the data

You select the data you want to replicate, and this for each destination you want to replicate your S3 data to.

Normalized schemas

You can opt for getting the raw data, or to explode all nested API objects in separate tables.

Custom transformation via dbt

You can add any dbt transformation model you want and even sequence them in the order you need, so you get the data in the exact format you need at your cloud data warehouse, lake or data base.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Redshift needs

calendar icon

Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates to Redshift.

play
Replicate Salesforce data to Snowflake with incremental

Manual full refresh

Easily re-sync all your data when Redshift has been desynchronized from the data source.

Change Data Capture for databases

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Redshift

A fully managed data warehouse service in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, Amazon Redshift is designed for storage and analysis of large-scale datasets. Redshift allows businesses to scale from a few hundred gigabytes to more than a petabyte (a million gigabytes), and utilizes ML techniques to analyze queries, offering businesses new insights from their data. Users can query and combine exabytes of data using standard SQL, and easily save their query results to their S3 data lake.

Why choose Airbyte for your S3 and Redshift data integration.

Airbyte is the new open-source ETL platform, and enables you to replicate your S3 data in the destination of your choice, in minutes.

Maintenance-free

Heading

connector

Just authenticate your

S3

account and destination, and your new

S3

data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

Extensible as open-sourced

With Airbyte, you can easily adapt the open-source

S3

ETL connector to your exact needs. All connectors are open-sourced.

No more security compliance issues​

Use Airbyte’s open-source edition to test your data pipeline without going through 3rd-party services. This will make your security team happy.

Normalized schemas​

Engineers can opt for raw data, analysts for normalized schemas. Airbyte offers several options that you can leverage with dbt.

Orchestration & scheduling​

Airbyte integrates with your existing stack. It can run with Airflow & Kubernetes and more are coming.

Monitoring & alerts on your terms​

Delays happen. We log everything and let you know when issues arise. Use our webhook to get notifications the way you want.