The AWS Data Pipeline console provides us with three different options to get started with creating a new pipeline. You could use the architect mode, which is exactly what we ended up working with in the earlier section, or alternatively, use any one of the pre-defined templates as a boilerplate and build your pipeline fro them. Last but not the least, the console also provides you with an ability to upload your very own pipeline definition file, which is basically a collection of various pipeline objects and conditions written in a JSON format. In this section, we will be learning how to write our very own pipeline definitions and later, use the same for building a custom pipeline as well.
To start, ...