Amazon AppFlow data source
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To help you get started with Upsolver, you can try it out for free. Sign up for subscription to use Amazon AppFlow. It gives you free Upsolver units (UUs), units of processing capability per hour based on VM instance type.
You can also use Upsolver through . All of the options will allow you to ingest data to Amazon S3, perform transformations with simple SQL, and output to your favorite database or analytics tools—in minutes.
This example reads data from Google Analytics using Amazon AppFlow and utilizing Upsolver for data transformation.
1. Navigate to DATA SOURCE > NEW.
2. Find Amazon AppFlow and click on SELECT.
3. Click on Create your first Amazon AppFlow Connection under APPFLOW CONNECTION
Make sure you're logged into the AWS account running AppFlow.
4. Define the connection integration information. Click on LAUNCH INTEGRATION.
NAME is the name of the connection between Upsolver and Amazon AppFlow. You will use this connection for the data coming from Amazon AppFlow to Upsolver. You can create multiple data sources using the same connection.
BUCKET NAME is the S3 bucket that AppFlow sends its data for Upsolver to process. The example shown below has the BUCKET NAME called googleanalytics. The integration will automatically create a Amazon S3 bucket name called appsolver-appflow-googleanalytics. This is the bucket that you will select when you set up your Flow later on.
5. Scroll down on the CloudFormation page and check the I acknowledge box and click on Create Stack.
6. Wait until the integration is complete.
7. Navigate back to Upsolver and click on DONE.
1. Navigate to your AppFlow service in your AWS environment and click on Create flow.
2. Give the flow a name and description. This example collects data from google analytics. Click on Next.
3. You may choose any sources Choose Google Analytics as your source and click on Connect.
4. Enter your Google Analytics information, give the connection a name and click on Continue.
5. Fill out the required fields for your source. For Google Analytics, you will see AppFlow requesting access to your Google account.
6. Choose Upsolver as your destination. From the first section - Create an Amazon Appflow data source connection step 4, you've created an AppFlow connection with BUCKET NAME called googleanalytics. Behind the scenes, it automatically created an Amazon S3 bucket called upsolver-appflow-googleanalytics. This bucket will show up as an option when you create an Upsolver destination. Select the upsolver-appflow-googleanalytics bucket.
7. Choose your Flow trigger (how frequently do you want the flow to run) and click on Next.
8. Check the fields that you want to work with and click on Map fields directly.
9. Verify that all needed fields from Google Analytics are selected and click on Next.
10. Click on Next and skip the filters. We can filter data with Upsolver if needed.
11. Review your Flow definition and click on Create flow.
12. Click on Run flow and verify that the Flow ran successfully under Run history tab.
1. Navigate back to the data source setup page by clicking on DATA SOURCE > NEW.
2. Find Amazon AppFlow and click on SELECT.
3. Fill out the information and choose the connection that you've created from the first section and click on CONTINUE.
4. Verify that the sample data coming from Google Analytics Flow that you created from the previous section and click on CREATE.
If you don't know your Google Analytics Client ID and Client Secret, please follow to set it up.
Congratulations! You have created an Upsolver Amazon AppFlow data source. Now you can transform or enrich the data using any built-in .
