AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate DEA-C01 Practice Question
A data engineering team runs a daily batch pipeline that extracts data from Amazon RDS, transforms it with several AWS Glue Spark jobs, executes a data-quality AWS Lambda function, and then loads curated data into Amazon Redshift. The team needs orchestration that automatically retries transient failures with exponential backoff, persists state to avoid re-running completed steps, scales without infrastructure management, and offers native AWS service integrations. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?
Define an AWS Glue workflow that chains the Glue jobs and uses triggers to invoke the Lambda function and Redshift data load steps.
Use Amazon EventBridge scheduled rules and target chaining to invoke each service sequentially, sending failed events to dead-letter queues.
Create an AWS Step Functions state machine that invokes the Glue jobs, Lambda function, and Redshift load through service-integrated tasks with retry and catch policies.
Deploy Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) and build a DAG that calls each service with Airflow operators and retry parameters.
AWS Step Functions is a fully managed, serverless workflow service that offers built-in service integrations for AWS Glue, Lambda, Amazon Redshift Data API, and many other services. It automatically persists execution state, supports configurable catch and retry logic (including exponential backoff), and scales without the need to provision or manage any infrastructure. Amazon MWAA can provide similar control, but administrators must size and patch the Airflow environment, increasing operational overhead. EventBridge rules can schedule and trigger targets but do not maintain workflow state or provide fine-grained retries. AWS Glue workflows orchestrate only Glue-centric activities and lack native steps for Lambda or Redshift, so additional custom code would be needed to achieve the required resiliency.
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