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Re: Amazon AppFlow

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Post by toomuchtodo »

masonhensley wrote: post #3

By now - the amount of time teams have spent doing this sort of work from scratch has to have surpassed the engineering hours taken to get to the moon.

As long as there is revenue to be had doing it, folks will continue to do it, reinvent it, and so on. It’s a billion dollar market, at least. Not everyone is going to be a developer, nor should they have to be (it’s unreasonable to assume everyone has the aptitude). Everyone is trying to be the Excel of the business process automation market.

Conversely, who knew there was so much money to be had in performing ETL on API payloads!

Re: Amazon AppFlow

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Post by masonhensley »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #4
masonhensley wrote: post #3

By now - the amount of time teams have spent doing this sort of work from scratch has to have surpassed the engineering hours taken to get to the moon.

As long as there is revenue to be had doing it, folks will continue to do it, reinvent it, and so on. It’s a billion dollar market, at least. Not everyone is going to be a developer, nor should they have to be (it’s unreasonable to assume everyone has the aptitude). Everyone is trying to be the Excel of the business process automation market. Conversely, who knew there was so much money to be had in performing ETL on…

Totally - I've had to architect & build similar work in regulated environments with custom raw data from clients... yuck.

There are definitely healthy businesses in different market sectors that have popped up to do DataA DataB

Re: Amazon AppFlow

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Post by jtwaleson »

For a minute I thought this was the release of the "AWS for Everyone" product with a new name, but this is something very different.

Interesting product though! I think everyone that's using SaaS solutions has nightmare scenarios about providers screwing up or going out of business, or even seeing versioning of data at the providers. Exporting in a standardized way to S3 is great for insights in changes as well as for backups.

Of course when you starting building triggers that react to changes this creates a huge lock-in to AWS, but that's a cost a lot of people are willing to pay.

I would love to be able to do this with a load of different SaaS solutions that we use (gitlab.com, support tools, even google docs) (I'm in a regulated industry and this would solve some issues for us). Curious to see how this will expand and if custom integrations will appear soon.

Any AWS marketing people that are reading, there's a typo: route cause -> root cause.

Re: Amazon AppFlow

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Post by degenerate »

The full list of SaaS integrations: https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/integrations/

Amplitude, DataDog, Dynatrace, Google Analytics, Infor Nexus, Marketo, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Singular, Slack, Snowflake, Trend Micro, Veeva, Zendesk.

I feel like a notably missing product from this list is Jira. As horrible as it is, lots of companies use Jira for tasking so it should have been supported out the gate.

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