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Guidance for Connecting Audiences to Amazon Marketing Cloud Uploader

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Overview

This Guidance demonstrates how to import first party data from third party sources to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and then upload and query your data directly to Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC).

How it works

These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.

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Well-Architected Pillars

The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.

This Guidance provides multiple ways to connect and import your data. Each connector has its own method for responding to incidents and events that are sheltered from each other, allowing you to safely operate the Guidance and respond to incidents and events.

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies are created using the least-privilege access so that every policy is restricted to the specific resource and operation. Amazon S3 bucket policies are used to ensure only the relevant services and entities can access the data stored. The data at rest in Amazon S3 is encrypted using Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3). Data transferred externally is encrypted using SSL. 

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This Guidance demonstrates how to connect data between multiple systems using Amazon S3, a highly available global service resilient to failures. Each connector that is used as part of this Guidance implements its own unique architecture and changes to each connector are kept separate. Amazon S3 uses AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch to monitor access and relevant alarms, logs, and metrics. Data stored in Amazon S3 can be backed up using lifecycle policies, versioning, or replicated to other Amazon S3 buckets. 

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Amazon S3 is a cost-effective storage solution requiring the least level of effort to operate. The Guidance will help you experiment and test each connector to determine the best method for bringing your data into Amazon Marketing Cloud. All levels of traffic and access patterns are supported with this Guidance to meet the needs of your workloads.

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The services selected for this Guidance are a cost-effective solution that require the least amount of management using serverless and managed services. Data is only transferred into Amazon S3 or to the Amazon Marketing Cloud in the same region.

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With Amazon S3, this Guidance only uses the minimal number of services, allowing you to select other connectors to build your own data pipelines. IAM and Amazon S3 policies provide least-privilege access. You configure Amazon S3 lifecycle management rules based on your requirements.

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Implementation Resources

A detailed guide is provided to experiment and use within your AWS account. Each stage of building the Guidance, including deployment, usage, and cleanup, is examined to prepare it for deployment.
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