Building ETL Pipelines to Read Windows Shared Drives from AWS

Organizations often maintain shared drives on Windows servers to store business-critical files. As businesses migrate to cloud platforms like AWS, integrating these shared drives with cloud-based ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines becomes crucial for seamless data processing and analytics. This blog outlines how to build ETL pipelines to read data from Windows shared drives, detect new or updated files, and move transformed data to AWS data stores.

Overview of Windows Shared Drives Integration with AWS

Windows shared drives operate using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, allowing file sharing over a network. AWS services, such as EC2, Lambda, and DataSync, can be configured to access shared drives, enabling data pipelines to read, process, and transform data stored in formats like CSV and DOC.

Key steps for integration:

1. Mount the Windows Shared Drive on AWS resources.
2. Detect new and updated files.
3. Read and process the data.
4. Transform and load data into AWS data stores.

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Mounting Windows Shared Drive

Mounting a shared drive ensures AWS resources can access the data stored on it.

Using EC2:

• Launch an EC2 instance with Windows or…