ingesting-into-data-lake — Skills

What it does

You MUST check whether AWS MCP tools or AWS CLI are available and inform the user if missing

You MUST confirm target AWS region and verify credentials with aws sts get-caller-identity

Database/namespace: Does a specific target database exist? Or should one be created?

Table: Existing table (append/merge) or new table (delegate to creating-data-lake-table)?

Format: S3 Tables (default), standard Iceberg, or raw Parquet?

Account has an s3tablescatalog federated catalog and active table buckets: recommend S3 Tables

Account has general-purpose buckets with Iceberg tables and no S3 Tables usage: recommend standard Iceberg on their existing bucket

ingesting into data lake

Source

Repository: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

ingesting-into-data-lake FAQ

What does the ingesting-into-data-lake skill do?

>- Import data into the AWS data lake from S3 files, local uploads, JDBC databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RDS, Aurora), Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, DynamoDB, or existing Glue catalog tables (migration). Default target is S3 Tables; standard Iceberg on a general purpose bucket is supported where S3 Tables is not adopted. Handles one-time loads, recurring pipelines, migrations. Triggers on: import data, load data, ingest, sync database, migrate table, move data to AWS, set up pipeline, ETL, pull from Snowflake, query BigQuery into S3, export DynamoDB, CTAS, convert to Iceberg. Do NOT use for setting up or troubleshooting Glue connections (use connecting-to-data-source), creating empty tables (use creating-data-lake-table), running queries (use querying-data-lake), finding tables by fuzzy name (use finding-data-lake-assets), catalog audit (use exploring-data-catalog), or SaaS platforms like Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, MongoDB, Kafka. You MUST check whether AWS MCP tools or AWS CLI are available and inform the user if missing You MUST confirm target AWS region and verify credentials with aws sts get-caller-identity

What does ingesting-into-data-lake require?

Local files, S3 files, DynamoDB, and catalog migration do not need a Glue connection. S3 Tables requires Glue 5.1 or higher and --datalake-formats iceberg job argument DynamoDB does not need a Glue connection -- do not attempt to create one

How do I install ingesting-into-data-lake?

Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill ingesting-into-data-lake --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.

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