Serverless architectures are changing how data pipelines are built. At Essid Solutions, we design event-driven pipelines using AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and S3 to provide low-maintenance, scalable solutions without managing servers.


🚀 Why Go Serverless for Data Pipelines?

  • No infrastructure to manage
  • Auto-scaling and high availability
  • Pay only for what you use
  • Ideal for lightweight and bursty workloads

Perfect for real-time ingestion, small batch processing, and async workflows.


⚖️ Common Serverless Pipeline Use Cases

  1. ETL for JSON/CSV to S3 and Redshift/Snowflake
  2. Log ingestion and transformation
  3. Webhook to data warehouse
  4. IoT or sensor data streaming
  5. Periodic data pulls from APIs

🌌 Core AWS Services Used

  • Amazon S3 – Storage for raw and processed data
  • AWS Lambda – Stateless compute for transformation or enrichment
  • Amazon EventBridge – Event routing and triggers
  • AWS Glue / Athena – Schema discovery and querying
  • Step Functions (optional) – Orchestration for complex flows

🔧 Example Architecture

[ External API / Cron Job / Webhook ]
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[ EventBridge Trigger ]
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[ AWS Lambda: Data Processing ]
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[ S3 Bucket or Redshift / Snowflake ]

Optional: Add a second Lambda for cleaning, enrichment, or batch processing.


💼 Use Case: Real-Time Transaction Logging

A fintech client needed to log and enrich user transactions in real-time. We:

  • Triggered Lambda via EventBridge for new API requests
  • Cleaned and enriched data on the fly
  • Stored results in S3 and Snowflake for BI dashboards

Result: Pipeline scaled to 1M+ events/day with 99.9% uptime, no server maintenance.


📅 Go Serverless with Confidence

We help teams launch reliable serverless pipelines using the best of AWS.

👉 Book a pipeline architecture review
Or email: hi@essidsolutions.com

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