Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Amazon AppFlow

aws.amazon.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 112 posts

Re: Amazon AppFlow

#31

Post by cdolan »

nhance wrote: post #25
degenerate wrote: post #8

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.

This is a far cry from the 347 available in Power Automate. Still interesting to see.

Not to mention the flexibility of custom connectors using the Power Apps API integrations.

Basically you can build a “connector” to any REST/JSON API

Re: Amazon AppFlow

#32

Post by zoom6628 »

scottlamb wrote: post #21
krackers wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hydrate would imply that what you currently have sitting is "dehydrated" in some form.

Hmm, maybe, but that's a mixed if not bleak metaphor. A dehydrated lake is just a pile of dead fish in a hole.

Yep .... and that is very often what untransformed data is like ! Thanks for the metaphor - made my day reading that one and given me a whole new expression to throw about during product management discussions in my day job. :-D

Re: Amazon AppFlow

#33

Post by dataminded »

lilfermat wrote: post #14

This is an interesting addition to AWS! I wonder how is this better than stitch or fivetran? It’s not immediately clear to me. Also I am doing the back the envelope math. It seems like app flow cost more than our current usage of stitch or even fivetran to our redshift warehouse and doesn’t even include some of our bigger other sources we use (MySQL, stripe). I am gonna do more analysis on this and see if this can be…

The days/weeks/months/years it takes to get IT security in a highly regulated industry to let stitch/fivetran have access to my data.

This is one of a handful of very significant deficiencies in AWS's data/analytics portfolio. They haven't had good tools for getting data into AWS from the various places that profit centers store it. I hope they very aggressively pursue extending the number of supported integrations and finish building the product.

This is a huge step forward IMO.

Re: Amazon AppFlow

#35

Post by jarym »

seibelj wrote: post #9

This seems like a Zapier killer, makes sense.

Interesting that Amazon seems to rarely acquire competitors. Instead they (slowly) begin to meet their use cases one by one.

Re: Amazon AppFlow

#36

Post by rvz »

Calcite wrote: post #18
i_am_nomad wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not so sure about that - Zapier has a number of use cases that are completely unrelated to AWS.

This is just Amazon’s first move. They definitely have most of Zapier’s use cases on their roadmap at this point.

I suspect that by AWS going first here, they can easily go for more integrations whilst also eating some of the Zapier's competitors lunch.

This depends on price and by that time its possible that Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure will start jumping in on the integrations market too, further squeezing the likes of some enterprise-only integrations such as Tray.io which still has less integrations than Zapier in general.

It's still too early to tell, but we'll see how fast Amazon adds support for more API integrations or if GCP and Azure will join in and do the same.

Re: Amazon AppFlow

#37

Post by FridgeSeal »

zoom6628 wrote: post #32
scottlamb wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, maybe, but that's a mixed if not bleak metaphor. A dehydrated lake is just a pile of dead fish in a hole.

Yep .... and that is very often what untransformed data is like ! Thanks for the metaphor - made my day reading that one and given me a whole new expression to throw about during product management discussions in my day job. :-D

> and that is very often what untransformed data is like

in my experience it's not just the untransformed ones that are like dead fish in a hole.

Re: Amazon AppFlow

#38

Post by hanniabu »

degenerate wrote: post #8

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.

What are some good Jira alternatives? We use Trello, but it's limited and plugins are needed for everything.

Re: Amazon AppFlow

#39

Post by rvz »

rgharris wrote: post #34

Ionic Appflow is a very different platform but it is interesting to have products with the exact same name (except the capitalization of "F") in the software/platform world. https://ionicframework.com/appflow

One of the worst things in naming products is when a big business unintentionally clashes with your product name and nearly forces you to rename/tweak it.

As they are in the same category (Cloud technology), I won't be entirely surprised if Ionic renames their 'AppFlow' name to something else. (Unless they're feeling lucky in winning a trademark lawsuit)

Re: Amazon AppFlow

#40

Post by all_usernames »

"send logs, metrics, and dashboards from Datadog into an Amazon S3 bucket to create monthly reports"

This is an odd use case given that Datadog can already store logs in your S3 buckets, and Datadog integrates with AWS Cloudwatch to pull in AWS metrics!

Post reply on HN