How to load data from GCS to AWS Datalake

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Set up AWS Datalake for your extracted GCS data

Select AWS Datalake where you want to import data from your GCS source to. You can also choose other cloud data warehouses, databases, data lakes, vector databases, or any other supported Airbyte destinations.

Configure the GCS to AWS Datalake in Airbyte

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

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TL;DR

set up GCS as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
set up AWS Datalake as a destination connector
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.

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

What is GCS

Google Cloud Storage is a cloud-based storage service that allows users to store and access their data from anywhere in the world. It provides a highly scalable and durable storage solution for businesses and individuals, with features such as automatic data replication, versioning, and access control. Google Cloud Storage offers different storage classes to suit different needs, including multi-regional, regional, nearline, and coldline storage. It also integrates with other Google Cloud services, such as BigQuery and Cloud Functions, to enable data analysis and processing. Overall, Google Cloud Storage provides a reliable and flexible storage solution for businesses of all sizes.

What is AWS Datalake

An AWS Data Lake is a centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. It is designed to handle massive amounts of data from various sources, such as databases, applications, IoT devices, and more. With AWS Data Lake, you can easily ingest, store, catalog, process, and analyze data using a wide range of AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR. This allows you to build data lakes for machine learning, big data analytics, and data warehousing workloads. AWS Data Lake provides a secure, scalable, and cost-effective solution for managing your organization's data.

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Prerequisites

A GCS account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
A AWS Datalake account.
An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that consolidates and streamlines the process of extracting and loading data from multiple data sources to data warehouses. It offers pre-built connectors, including GCS and AWS Datalake, for seamless data migration.

When using Airbyte to move data from GCS to AWS Datalake, it extracts data from GCS using the source connector, converts it into a format AWS Datalake can ingest using the provided schema, and then loads it into AWS Datalake via the destination connector. This allows businesses to leverage their GCS data for advanced analytics and insights within AWS Datalake, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.

Step 1: Set up GCS as a source connector

1. First, navigate to the Airbyte website and create an account.
2. Once you have logged in, click on the ""Sources"" tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
3. Scroll down until you find the ""Google Cloud Storage"" source connector and click on it.
4. Click on the ""Create Connection"" button.
5. Enter a name for your connection and click on the ""Next"" button.
6. Enter your Google Cloud Storage credentials, including your project ID, service account email, and private key.
7. Click on the ""Test Connection"" button to ensure that your credentials are correct.
8. Once your connection has been successfully tested, click on the ""Create Connection"" button.
9. Your Google Cloud Storage source connector is now connected to Airbyte and ready to use.

Note: It is important to ensure that your Google Cloud Storage account has the necessary permissions to allow Airbyte to access your data. Additionally, it is recommended to review Airbyte's documentation and best practices for securing your data and connections.

Step 2: Set up AWS Datalake as a destination connector

1. Log in to your AWS account and navigate to the AWS Management Console.
2. Click on the S3 service and create a new bucket where you will store your data.
3. Create an IAM user with the necessary permissions to access the S3 bucket. Make sure to save the access key and secret key.
4. Open Airbyte and navigate to the Destinations tab.
5. Select the AWS Datalake destination connector and click on "Create new connection".
6. Enter a name for your connection and paste the access key and secret key you saved earlier.
7. Enter the name of the S3 bucket you created in step 2 and select the region where it is located.
8. Choose the format in which you want your data to be stored in the S3 bucket (e.g. CSV, JSON, Parquet).
9. Configure any additional settings, such as compression or encryption, if necessary.
10. Test the connection to make sure it is working properly.
11. Save the connection and start syncing your data to the AWS Datalake.

Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your GCS data to AWS Datalake

Once you've successfully connected GCS as a data source and AWS Datalake as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:

Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
Choose your source: Select GCS from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
Select your destination: Choose AWS Datalake from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
Select the data to sync: Choose the specific GCS objects you want to import data from towards AWS Datalake. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from GCS to AWS Datalake according to your settings.

Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your AWS Datalake data warehouse is always up-to-date with your GCS data.

Use Cases to transfer your GCS data to AWS Datalake

Integrating data from GCS to AWS Datalake provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:

Advanced Analytics: AWS Datalake’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your GCS data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within GCS alone.
Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with GCS, syncing to AWS Datalake allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
Historical Data Analysis: GCS has limits on historical data. Syncing data to AWS Datalake allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
Data Security and Compliance: AWS Datalake provides robust data security features. Syncing GCS data to AWS Datalake ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
Scalability: AWS Datalake can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding GCS data.
Data Science and Machine Learning: By having GCS data in AWS Datalake, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
Reporting and Visualization: While GCS provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to AWS Datalake, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a GCS table that needs to be converted to a AWS Datalake table, Airbyte can do that automatically.

Wrapping Up

To summarize, this tutorial has shown you how to:

Configure a GCS account as an Airbyte data source connector.
Configure AWS Datalake as a data destination connector.
Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from GCS to AWS Datalake after you set a schedule

With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.

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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 GCS?

What data can you extract from GCS?

Google Cloud Storage's API provides access to various types of data, including:

1. Object data: This includes files and other data objects stored in Google Cloud Storage buckets.

2. Metadata: This includes information about the objects stored in the buckets, such as their size, creation date, and content type.

3. Access control data: This includes information about who has access to the objects stored in the buckets and what level of access they have.

4. Bucket data: This includes information about the buckets themselves, such as their name, location, and storage class.

5. Logging data: This includes information about the activity in the buckets, such as who accessed them and when.

6. Transfer data: This includes information about data transfers to and from the buckets, such as the amount of data transferred and the transfer speed.

Overall, the Google Cloud Storage API provides access to a wide range of data related to object storage and management in the cloud.

How do I transfer data from GCS?

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 Google Cloud Storage to AWS Datalake as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
2. Choose a destination (more than 50 available destination databases, data warehouses or lakes) to sync data too and set it up as a destination connector
3. Define which data you want to transfer from Google Cloud Storage to AWS Datalake 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 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.

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TL;DR

set up GCS as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
set up AWS Datalake as a destination connector
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.

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

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Prerequisites

A GCS account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
A AWS Datalake account.
An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.

Step 1: Set up GCS as a source connector

Step 2: Set up AWS Datalake as a destination connector

Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your GCS data to AWS Datalake

Once you've successfully connected GCS as a data source and AWS Datalake as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:

Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
Choose your source: Select GCS from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
Select your destination: Choose AWS Datalake from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
Select the data to sync: Choose the specific GCS objects you want to import data from towards AWS Datalake. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from GCS to AWS Datalake according to your settings.

Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your AWS Datalake data warehouse is always up-to-date with your GCS data.

Use Cases to transfer your GCS data to AWS Datalake

Integrating data from GCS to AWS Datalake provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:

Advanced Analytics: AWS Datalake’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your GCS data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within GCS alone.
Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with GCS, syncing to AWS Datalake allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
Historical Data Analysis: GCS has limits on historical data. Syncing data to AWS Datalake allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
Data Security and Compliance: AWS Datalake provides robust data security features. Syncing GCS data to AWS Datalake ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
Scalability: AWS Datalake can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding GCS data.
Data Science and Machine Learning: By having GCS data in AWS Datalake, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
Reporting and Visualization: While GCS provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to AWS Datalake, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a GCS table that needs to be converted to a AWS Datalake table, Airbyte can do that automatically.