Airflow is on the Cloud | ELT Pipeline Orchestration With Airflow & AWS
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Kaan Boke Ph.D.
Originally published on Towards AI.

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You will see the ELT pipeline with Airflow orchestration.
You will learn to load data to the PostgreSQL database directly from AWS S3. You’ll do everything with the Docker containers.
You will learn how to communicate between the different tasks with Airflow XCom.
You will download files from AWS S3.
You will upload files to AWS S3.
You’ll use Bash Operator, Python Operator, Task Decorator, and other Airflow functions.
You’ll get the data, load it to PostgreSQL Database and see it with pgAdmin in minutes.
Let’s start.
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