At AWS re:Invent 2024, we launched a no code zero-ETL integration between Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, simplifying how organizations deal with knowledge analytics and AI workflows. This integration alleviates the normal challenges of constructing and sustaining complicated extract, remodel, and cargo (ETL) pipelines for reworking NoSQL knowledge into analytics-ready codecs, which beforehand required important time and sources whereas introducing potential system vulnerabilities. Organizations can now seamlessly mix the power of DynamoDB in dealing with speedy, concurrent transactions with quick analytical processing by means of the zero-ETL integration. For instance, an ecommerce platform storing person session knowledge and cart info in DynamoDB can now analyze this knowledge in close to actual time with out constructing customized pipelines. Gaming firms utilizing DynamoDB for participant knowledge can immediately analyze person conduct as occasions happen, enabling real-time insights into sport stability and participant engagement patterns.
The zero-ETL functionality makes use of built-in change knowledge seize (CDC) to robotically synchronize knowledge updates and schema adjustments between DynamoDB and SageMaker Lakehouse tables. By utilizing Apache Iceberg format, the combination offers dependable efficiency with ACID transaction help and environment friendly large-scale knowledge dealing with. Information scientists can practice ML fashions on recent knowledge and knowledge analysts can generate experiences utilizing present info, with typical synchronization latency in minutes relatively than hours.
On this submit, we share tips on how to arrange this zero-ETL integration from DynamoDB to your SageMaker Lakehouse surroundings.
Resolution overview
We use a SageMaker Lakehouse catalog, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for this integration. The next is the reference knowledge movement diagram for the zero-ETL integration.

The workflow consists of the next elements:
- The not too long ago launched zero-ETL integration functionality throughout the AWS Glue console permits direct integration between DynamoDB and SageMaker Lakehouse, storing knowledge in Iceberg format. This streamlined method opens up new potentialities for knowledge groups by making a large-scale open and safe knowledge ecosystem with out conventional ETL processing overhead.
- When constructing a SageMaker Lakehouse structure, you should use an Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3) based mostly managed catalog as your zero-ETL goal, offering seamless knowledge integration with out transformation overhead. This method creates a sturdy basis in your SageMaker Lakehouse implementation whereas sustaining the cost-effectiveness and scalability inherent to Amazon S3 storage, enabling environment friendly analytics and machine studying workflows.
- Organizations can use a Redshift Managed Storage (RMS) based mostly managed catalog after they want high-performance SQL analytics and multi-table transactions. This method makes use of RMS for storage whereas sustaining knowledge within the Iceberg format, offering an optimum stability of efficiency and adaptability.
- After you determine your Lakehouse infrastructure, you’ll be able to entry it by means of various analytics engines, together with AWS companies like Athena, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR as unbiased companies. For a extra streamlined expertise, SageMaker Unified Studio gives centralized analytics administration, the place you’ll be able to question your knowledge from a single unified interface.
Stipulations
On this part, we stroll by means of the steps to arrange your resolution sources and ensure your permission settings.
Create a SageMaker Unified Studio area, mission, and IAM function
Earlier than you start, you want an AWS Identification and Entry Administration (IAM) function for enabling the zero-ETL integration. On this submit, we use SageMaker Unified Studio, which gives a unified knowledge platform expertise. It robotically manages required Lake Formation permissions on knowledge and catalogs for you.
It’s important to first create a SageMaker Unified Studio area, an administrative entity that controls person entry, permissions, and sources for groups working throughout the SageMaker Unified Studio surroundings. Be aware down the SageMaker Unified Studio URL after you create the area. You can be utilizing this URL later to log in to the SageMaker Unified Studio portal and question our knowledge throughout a number of engines.
Then, you create a SageMaker Unified Studio mission, an built-in growth surroundings (IDE) that gives a unified expertise for knowledge processing, analytics, and AI growth. As a part of mission creation, an IAM function is robotically generated. This function can be used whenever you entry SageMaker Unified Studio later. For extra particulars on tips on how to create a SageMaker Unified Studio mission and area, discuss with An built-in expertise for all of your knowledge and AI with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio.
Put together a pattern dataset inside DynamoDB
To implement this resolution, you want a DynamoDB desk that may both be used out of your present sources, or created utilizing the pattern knowledge file that you would be able to import from an S3 bucket. For this submit, we information you thru importing pattern knowledge from an S3 bucket into a brand new DynamoDB desk, offering a sensible basis for the ideas mentioned.
To create a pattern desk in DynamoDB, full the next steps:
- Obtain the fictional ecommerce_customer_behavior.csv dataset. This dataset captures buyer conduct and interactions on an ecommerce platform.
- On the Amazon S3 console, open the S3 bucket utilized by the SageMaker Unified Studio mission.
- Add the CSV file you downloaded.

- Choose the uploaded file to view its particulars web page.

- Copy the worth for S3 URI and make a remark of it; you’ll use this path for the following DynamoDB desk creation step.

Create a Dynamo DB desk
Full the next steps to create a DynamoDB desk from a file from Amazon S3, utilizing the import from Amazon S3 performance. Then you’ll be able to allow the settings on the DynamoDB desk required to allow zero-ETL integration.
- On the DynamoDB console, choose Imports from S3 within the navigation pane.
- Choose Import from S3.

- Enter the S3 URI from earlier step for Supply S3 URL, choose CSV for Import file format, and choose Subsequent.

- Present the desk title as
ecommerce_customer_behavior
, the partition key as customer_id
, and the type key as product_id
, then choose Subsequent.

- Use the default desk settings, then choose Subsequent to assessment the small print.

- Overview the settings and choose Import.

It’s going to take a couple of minutes for the import standing to alter from Importing to Accomplished.


When the import is full, it’s best to have the ability to see the desk created on the Tables web page.

- Choose the
ecommerce_customer_behavior
desk and choose Edit PTIR.

- Choose Activate time limit restoration and choose Save adjustments.
That is required for organising zero-ETL utilizing DynamoDB as supply.
On the Backups tab, it’s best to see the standing for PITR as On.

- Moreover, it’s essential to use a desk coverage to allow entry for zero-ETL integration. On the Permissions tab, and replica the next code beneath Useful resource-based coverage for desk:
{ "Model": "2012-10-17", "Assertion": [ { "Sid": "TablePolicy01", "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "Service": "glue.amazonaws.com" }, "Action": [ "dynamodb:ExportTableToPointInTime", "dynamodb:DescribeExport", "dynamodb:DescribeTable" ], "Useful resource": "*" } ] }
This coverage makes use of all of the sources, which shouldn’t be utilized in manufacturing workload. To deploy this setup in manufacturing, limit it to solely particular zero-ETL integration sources by including a situation to the resource-based coverage.
Now that you’ve used the Amazon S3 import methodology to load a CSV file to create a DynamoDB desk, you’ll be able to allow zero-ETL integration on the desk.
Validate permission settings
To validate if the catalog permission setting is acceptable, full the next steps:
- On the AWS Glue console, choose Databases within the navigation pane.

- Examine for the database
salesmarketing_XXX
.

- Choose Catalog settings within the navigation pane, and save the permissions.
The next code is an instance of permissions for catalog settings:
{ "Model": "2012-10-17", "Assertion": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "AWS": "arn:aws:iam:::root" }, "Action": "glue:CreateInboundIntegration", "Resource": "arn:aws:glue:::database/salesmarketing_XXX" }, { "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "Service": "glue.amazonaws.com" }, "Action": "glue:AuthorizeInboundIntegration", "Resource": "arn:aws:glue:::database/salesmarketing_XXX" } ] }
Now you’re able to create your zero-ETL integration.
Create a zero-ETL integration
Full the next steps to create a zero-ETL integration:
- On the AWS Glue console, choose Zero-ETL integrations within the navigation pane.

- Choose “Create zero-ETL integration” to create a brand new configuration.

- Choose Amazon DynamoDB because the supply kind.

- Below Supply particulars, choose
ecommerce_customer_behavior
for DynamoDB desk.


- Below Goal particulars, present the next info:
- For AWS account, choose Use the present account.
- For Information warehouse or catalog, enter the account ID of your default catalog.
- For Goal database, enter
salesmarketing_XXX
. - For Goal IAM function, enter
datazone_usr_role_XXX
.

- Below Output settings, choose Unnest all fields and Use main keys from DynamoDB tables, depart Configure goal desk title because the default worth (
ecommerce_customer_behavior
), then choose Subsequent.

- Enter zetl-ecommerce-customer-behavior for Title beneath Integration particulars, then choose Subsequent.

- Choose Create and launch integration to launch the combination.

The standing ought to be Creating after the combination is efficiently initiated.
The standing will change to Energetic in roughly a minute.
Confirm that the SageMaker Lakehouse desk exists. This course of may take as much as quarter-hour to finish, as a result of the default refresh interval from DynamoDB is about to fifteen minutes.

Validate the SageMaker Lakehouse desk
Now you can question your SageMaker Lakehouse desk, created by means of zero-ETL integration, utilizing numerous question engines. Full the next steps to confirm you’ll be able to you see the desk in SageMaker Unified Studio:
- Log in to the SageMaker Unified Studio portal utilizing the one sign-on (SSO) possibility.

- Choose your mission to view its particulars web page.

- Choose Information within the navigation pane.

- Confirm that you would be able to see the Iceberg desk within the SageMaker Lakehouse catalog.

Question with Athena
On this part, we present tips on how to use Athena to question the SageMaker Lakehouse desk from SageMaker Unified Studio. On the mission web page, find the ecommerce_customer_behavior
desk within the catalog, and on the choices menu (three dots), choose Question with Athena.
This creates a SELECT question in opposition to the SageMaker Lakehouse desk in a brand new window, and it’s best to see the question outcomes as proven within the following screenshot.
Question with Amazon Redshift
You can even question the SageMaker Lakehouse desk from SageMaker Unified Studio utilizing Amazon Redshift. Full the next steps:
- Choose the connection on the highest proper.
- Choose Redshift (Lakehouse) from the checklist of connections.
- Choose the
awsdatacatalog
database. - Choose the
salesmarketing
schema. - Choose Select button.

The outcomes can be proven within the Amazon Redshift Question Editor.
Question with Amazon EMR Serverless
You possibly can question the Lakehouse desk utilizing Amazon EMR Serverless, which makes use of Apache Spark’s processing capabilities. Full the next steps:
- On the mission web page, choose Compute within the navigation pane.
- Choose Add compute on the Information processing tab to create an EMR Serverless compute related to the mission.

- You possibly can create new compute sources or hook up with present sources. For this instance, choose Create new compute sources.

- Choose EMR Serverless.

- Enter a compute title (for instance, Gross sales-Advertising and marketing), choose the newest launch of EMR Serverless, and choose Add compute.
It’s going to take a while to create the compute.
It is best to see the standing as Began for the compute. Now it’s prepared for use as your compute possibility for querying by means of a Jupyter pocket book.
- Choose the Construct menu and choose JupyterLab.
It’s going to take a while to arrange the workspace for operating JupyterLab.
After the Jupyter Lab house is about up, it’s best to see a web page just like the next screenshot.
- Choose the brand new folder icon to create a brand new folder.

- Title the folder
lakehouse_zetl_lab
.

- Navigate to the folder you simply created and create a pocket book beneath this folder.
- Choose the pocket book Python3 (ipykernel) on the Launcher tab, and rename the pocket book to
query_lakehouse_table
.

You possibly can observe that the pocket book is displaying native Python as default language and compute. The 2 drop down menus present the connection kind and compute for the chosen connection kind, simply above the primary cell throughout the Jupyter pocket book.
- Choose PySpark because the connection, and choose the EMR Serverless utility as compute.

- Enter the next pattern code to question the desk utilizing Spark SQL:
import sys from pyspark.sql import SparkSession from pyspark.sql.capabilities import * # Set the present database spark.catalog.setCurrentDatabase("salesmarketing_XXX") # Execute SQL question and retailer ends in DataFrame df = spark.sql("choose * from ecommerce_customer_behavior restrict 10") # Show the outcomes df.present()

You possibly can see the Spark DataFrame outcomes.
Clear up
To keep away from incurring future fees, delete the SageMaker area, DynamoDB desk, AWS Glue sources, and different objects created from this submit.
Conclusion
This submit demonstrated how one can set up a zero-ETL connection from DynamoDB to SageMaker Lakehouse, making your knowledge out there in Iceberg format with out constructing customized knowledge pipelines. We confirmed how one can analyze this DynamoDB knowledge by means of numerous compute engines inside SageMaker Unified Studio. This streamlined method alleviates conventional knowledge motion complexities, and permits extra environment friendly knowledge evaluation workflows immediately out of your DynamoDB tables.
Check out this resolution in your personal use case, and share your suggestions within the feedback.
Concerning the authors
Narayani Ambashta is an Analytics Specialist Options Architect at AWS, specializing in the automotive and manufacturing sector, the place she guides strategic clients in creating fashionable knowledge and AI methods. With over 15 years of cross-industry expertise, she focuses on massive knowledge structure, real-time analytics, and AI/ML applied sciences, serving to organizations implement fashionable knowledge architectures. Her experience spans throughout lakehouse, generative AI, and IoT platforms, enabling clients to drive digital transformation initiatives. When not architecting fashionable options, she enjoys staying energetic by means of sports activities and yoga.
Raj Ramasubbu is a Senior Analytics Specialist Options Architect centered on massive knowledge and analytics and AI/ML with AWS. He helps clients architect and construct extremely scalable, performant, and safe cloud-based options on AWS. Raj offered technical experience and management in constructing knowledge engineering, massive knowledge analytics, enterprise intelligence, and knowledge science options for over 18 years previous to becoming a member of AWS. He helped clients in numerous {industry} verticals like healthcare, medical gadgets, life sciences, retail, asset administration, automobile insurance coverage, residential REIT, agriculture, title insurance coverage, provide chain, doc administration, and actual property.
Yadgiri Pottabhathini is a Senior Analytics Specialist Options Architect within the media and leisure sector. He focuses on helping enterprise clients with their knowledge and analytics cloud transformation initiatives, whereas offering steering on accelerating their Generative AI adoption by means of the event of information foundations and fashionable knowledge methods that leverage open-source frameworks and applied sciences.
Junpei Ozono is a Sr. Go-to-market (GTM) Information & AI options architect at AWS in Japan. He drives technical market creation for knowledge and AI options whereas collaborating with world groups to develop scalable GTM motions. He guides organizations in designing and implementing progressive data-driven architectures powered by AWS companies, serving to clients speed up their cloud transformation journey by means of fashionable knowledge and AI options. His experience spans throughout fashionable knowledge architectures together with Information Mesh, Information Lakehouse, and Generative AI, enabling clients to construct scalable and progressive options on AWS.