Copying data from Amazon S3 to Azure Blob storage

In this recipe, you will learn how to copy data from an AWS S3 bucket to the Azure Blob storage container using a data factory.

Getting ready

This recipe requires you to have an AWS account and an S3 bucket. Refer to the Technical requirements section to find out how to set up a new AWS account if you do not have one. Once you have your AWS account set up, go to https://s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/ to create a bucket. Upload the sample CSV files from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Azure-Data-Factory-Cookbook/tree/master/data to your bucket.

How to do it…

Rather than designing the pipeline in the Author tab, we will use the Copy Data Wizard. The Copy Data Wizard will walk you through pipeline creation step by step, and will create and run the pipeline for you:

1. Go to the home page of Azure Data Factory and select Ingest tile to start the Copy Data Wizard.

   

   Figure 6.1 – Copy Data Wizard interface

2. We need to define...