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Copy and mask PII between Amazon RDS databases using visual ETL jobs in AWS Glue Studio

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This article explains how to copy data from one Amazon RDS PostgreSQL database to another while automatically masking personally identifiable information (PII) using AWS Glue Studio, a low-code visual editor for building ETL pipelines.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Solution overview and prerequisites
  • Enabling connectivity between the AWS accounts hosting the source, target, and AWS Glue resources
  • Creating AWS Glue components like connections and crawlers to access the databases
  • Building a visual ETL job in AWS Glue Studio with steps for data extraction, PII detection and masking, data transformation, and loading to the target database
  • Running the ETL job and verifying the results
  • Cleaning up the resources created


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