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How to load data from Mailgun to AWS Datalake

Learn how to use Airbyte to synchronize your Mailgun data into AWS Datalake within minutes.

TL;DR

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

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

What is Mailgun

Mailgun is a well-known provider of email API services you can easily use to send, validate, and receive emails through your domain at scale. Mailgun also assists you to track the performance of your sent emails with robust open, click, bounce, and delivery tracking. It has remaining an email validation service, powered by its email-sending cache, that provides some of the most accurate validation results on the market. You can easily create personalized emails targeted at a specific audience.

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

  1. A Mailgun account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
  2. A AWS Datalake account.
  3. 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 Mailgun and AWS Datalake, for seamless data migration.

When using Airbyte to move data from Mailgun to AWS Datalake, it extracts data from Mailgun 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 Mailgun data for advanced analytics and insights within AWS Datalake, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.

Step 1: Set up Mailgun as a source connector

1. First, you need to create an API key in your Mailgun account. To do this, log in to your Mailgun account and navigate to the "API Keys" section. Click on the "Create New API Key" button and give your key a name.  
2. Once you have created your API key, copy it to your clipboard.  
3. In Airbyte, navigate to the "Sources" tab and click on the "Add Source" button.  
4. Select "Mailgun" from the list of available sources.  
5. In the "Configure Source" screen, enter a name for your Mailgun source connector.  
6. Paste your Mailgun API key into the "API Key" field.  
7. Enter the domain associated with your Mailgun account in the "Domain" field.  
8. If you want to limit the number of emails that are synced, you can enter a date range in the "Start Date" and "End Date" fields.  
9. Click on the "Test Connection" button to ensure that your credentials are correct and that Airbyte can connect to your Mailgun account.  
10. If the test is successful, click on the "Create" button to save your Mailgun source connector.  
11. You can now use your Mailgun source connector to sync data with other destinations in Airbyte.

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 Mailgun data to AWS Datalake

Once you've successfully connected Mailgun 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:

  1. Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
  2. Choose your source: Select Mailgun from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
  3. Select your destination: Choose AWS Datalake from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
  4. 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.
  5. Select the data to sync: Choose the specific Mailgun objects you want to import data from towards AWS Datalake. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
  6. 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.
  7. Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
  8. Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from Mailgun 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 Mailgun data.

Use Cases to transfer your Mailgun data to AWS Datalake

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

  1. Advanced Analytics: AWS Datalake’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your Mailgun data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within Mailgun alone.
  2. Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with Mailgun, 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.
  3. Historical Data Analysis: Mailgun has limits on historical data. Syncing data to AWS Datalake allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
  4. Data Security and Compliance: AWS Datalake provides robust data security features. Syncing Mailgun data to AWS Datalake ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
  5. Scalability: AWS Datalake can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding Mailgun data.
  6. Data Science and Machine Learning: By having Mailgun data in AWS Datalake, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
  7. Reporting and Visualization: While Mailgun 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 Mailgun 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:

  1. Configure a Mailgun account as an Airbyte data source connector.
  2. Configure AWS Datalake as a data destination connector.
  3. Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from Mailgun 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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Frequently Asked Questions

What data can you extract from Mailgun?

Mailgun's API provides access to various types of data related to email delivery and management. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through Mailgun's API:  

1. Email sending and delivery data: - Information about sent emails, including sender and recipient email addresses, subject, and content. - Delivery status of emails, including whether they were successfully delivered or bounced.  
2. Email tracking data: - Open and click tracking data, which provides information about when and how many times an email was opened or clicked. - Unsubscribe tracking data, which provides information about when and how many times a recipient unsubscribed from an email list.  
3. Email validation data: - Information about the validity of email addresses, including whether they are formatted correctly and whether they exist.  
4. Account and domain management data: - Information about the account and domain settings, including API keys, domains, and webhooks. - Usage statistics, including the number of emails sent and received, and the amount of storage used.  Overall, Mailgun's API provides a comprehensive set of data that can be used to monitor and optimize email delivery and management.

What data can you transfer to AWS Datalake?

You can transfer a wide variety of data to AWS Datalake. This usually includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data like transaction records, log files, JSON data, CSV files, and more, allowing robust, scalable data integration and analysis.

What are top ETL tools to transfer data from Mailgun to AWS Datalake?

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from Mailgun to AWS Datalake include:

  • Airbyte
  • Fivetran
  • Stitch
  • Matillion
  • Talend Data Integration

These tools help in extracting data from Mailgun and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into AWS Datalake and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.