Integration on AWS
What is Integration on AWS?
Integration on AWS enables you to quickly and securely connect all your applications, files, and data to increase business agility and application extensibility, while lowering your total cost of ownership. AWS' approach to integration helps both developers and low-code/no-code users quickly build flexible, cost-effective integrations that can scale with your business. Your team can use existing tooling and developer expertise to define your integration strategy.
To stay competitive, businesses must adapt to new technologies and market shifts. Many are adopting Generative AI tools and incorporating them into their applications. A well-defined AWS integration strategy can help you manage these changes, accelerate the time to adapt, and innovate with minimal disruption without incurring excessive costs.
AWS offers purpose-built pre-defined integrations, with over 220 AWS services and over 140 SaaS, external and third-party applications, that developers can compose together, via visual interfaces with drag-and-drop and point-and-click capabilities or code, to integrate applications, services, and data sources in the cloud and on-premises.
Benefits of Integration on AWS
Broad-set of purpose-built integration services
AWS offers a comprehensive portfolio of highly configurable integration services, including application, data, and file integration options. This flexibility allows you to select the integration services that best fit your specific use case and business needs.
Cost-effective pricing
AWS takes a different approach to typical integration licensing models. We only charge customers for what they use, so that they can have a cost-effective solution that scales with their business.
Build and scale faster
Build and scale applications faster and evolve your integrations to meet requirements. Integration on AWS automatically gives you the ability to securely connect to over 220 AWS services with native integrations and with over 140 purpose-built integrations with third-party SaaS applications. AWS offers powerful GenAI-powered tools that empower your developers to build integration solutions more efficiently.
Developer-led integration
AWS integration services are designed with developers in mind, providing options to leverage configuration or code to accelerate integration across many AWS services. Your developers can utilize familiar tooling, deployment techniques, and existing operations and processes for observability and alerting. Organizations can leverage their existing AWS-trained developer pool without the need to hire specialists with specific skills.
Built-in security
AWS is architected to be the most secure global cloud, and security features are in-built in AWS services. When developers use AWS services to compose their integration solutions, they can elevate their applications’ security posture, by leveraging AWS’s excellence in security best practices. These include least privilege access management, data protection in transit and at rest, normalization of disparate data into the OCSF standard, and more.
Integration on AWS Services
AWS offers a broad portfolio of purpose-built application, file, and data integration services that can help you build a modern integration solution. The application integration services can integrate AWS services and third-party SaaS applications via events, messages, APIs, and workflows. The data integration services can help you discover, prepare, and integrate data from streams and data flows. AWS offers other integration services to help you with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and to move large amounts of data and databases. All of these integration services provide native integrations with AWS services and external sources. AWS offers a variety of integration patterns to help you learn and get started using integration services.
Common use cases
Application Integration
Application Integration enables independent systems to communicate with each other.
Create, maintain, and secure APIs at any scale
Create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. APIs act as the "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your backend services. Using API Gateway, you can create RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs that enable real-time two-way communication applications. API Gateway supports containerized and serverless workloads, as well as web applications.
Offload management of messaging brokers
With Amazon MQ, you can streamline setup, operation, and management of ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ message brokers on AWS. Achieve low-latency event messaging, migrate to AWS with flexible configurations, and integrate applications with Lambda functions.
Connect apps to data and events with secure, serverless, and performant GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs
Simplify application development with GraphQL APIs by providing a single endpoint to securely query or update data from multiple databases, microservices, and APIs. Easily create engaging real-time experiences with Pub/Sub APIs by automatically publishing data updates to subscribed API clients via serverless WebSockets connections.
Securely stream data with a fully managed, highly available Apache Kafka service
With Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) you can ingest and process log and event streams, run centralized state or data buses, and power your event driven systems.
Simplify API Lifecycle Management
Simplify API lifecycle management with robust security, monitoring, and scalability. Seamlessly integrate backend services, ensure high availability, and empower developers with detailed analytics and developer portals. Ideal for organizations seeking efficient, secure, and scalable API solutions.
Build GenAI solutions with Event-Driven Patterns
Enable developers to build GenAI solutions quickly and effectively run on AWS at scale. Discover new event-driven architectural patterns for hosting, context tuning, and consuming GenAI.
Integrate applications at scale
Build event-driven applications at scale across AWS, existing systems, or SaaS applications. Plug and play connectors facilitate ingestion of data from over hundreds of supported SaaS platforms, including Adobe, Stripe, and Salesforce without having to write any code. Build rich integrations quicker and accelerate your time to market.
Simplify, orchestrate and automate workflows
Simplify and automate the orchestration of complex workflows while enhancing reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. Integrate seamlessly with AWS services, and easily design, visualize, and monitor your application workflows.
Accelerate and simplify integrations with GenAI
Empower your developers to build integrations more efficiently with AWS GenAI-powered tools. Rapidly prototype, iterate, and launch integration solutions while adhering to AWS' security and reliability best practices.
Data Integration
Data integration is the process of bringing data from disparate systems together.
Connect to and act on all your data, no matter where it lives
With AWS data integration capabilities, you can bring together data from multiple sources; you can transform, operationalize, and manage data to deliver high quality data across your data lakes and data warehouses.
Unlock the value of mainframe data
Mainframe data integration using AWS services enables you to reduce cost, create modern architectures, and integrate your mainframe and cloud-native technologies. You’ll be able to inform your business decisions with improved analytics, and create new opportunities for innovation and the development of modern applications. AWS provides integration patterns to facilitate data replication including file-based data synchronization, change data capture, and event-sourced replication.
File Integration
File integration is the process of combining multiple files from remote data sources into a unified, accessible system.
Easily manage and share data with simple, secure, and scalable file transfers
Build event-driven managed file transfer (MFT) workflows and automate business processes to integrate remote data with your downstream applications, data lakes or analytics. You can integrate files from your remote business partners over industry standard protocols such as SFTP, AS2, FTPS and FTP.
