Building Your First AWS Data Pipeline: A Guide for Data Professionals Who've Never Touched Cloud Infrastructure

The spreadsheet that changed everything Here’s a story that might sound familiar. You’re pulling data from an API—maybe daily sales numbers, maybe customer interactions, maybe something else entirely. Every morning, you open your laptop, run a Python script, save the CSV somewhere, and get on with your actual work. It takes maybe five minutes, but it’s five minutes you can’t forget about. Miss a day and you’ve got a gap in your data. Go on vacation? Better hope someone remembers to run your script.