Amazon Ads Connector for Azure Data Factory (SSIS) : Test connection

Name: SSIS PowerPack
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Author: ZappySys

Integrate Azure Data Factory (SSIS) and Amazon Ads

Learn how to test connection using the Amazon Ads Connector for Azure Data Factory (SSIS). This connector enables you to read and write Amazon Ads data effortlessly. Integrate, manage, and automate campaigns, ad groups, and performance metrics — almost no coding required. We'll walk you through the exact setup.

Let's dive in!

Amazon Ads Connector

Powering this integration

Low-code / No-code
High performance
Bidirectional
Easy to use

Built on the ZappySys API Connector Framework, the Amazon Ads Connector for SSIS is a high-performance, low-code / no-code solution. It enables you to read and write Amazon Ads data without any programming right in your SSIS package. Part of the SSIS PowerPack.

Documentation

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure the following prerequisites are met:

SSIS designer installed. Sometimes it is referred as BIDS or SSDT (download it from Microsoft).
Basic knowledge of SSIS package development using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services.
SSIS PowerPack is installed (if you are new to SSIS PowerPack, then get started!).

Test connection in SSIS

Open Visual Studio and click Create a new project.
Select Integration Services Project. Enter a name and location for your project, then click OK.
From the SSIS Toolbox, drag and drop a Data Flow Task onto the Control Flow surface, and double-click it:
Make sure you are in the Data Flow Task designer:
From the SSIS toolbox drag and API Source (Predefined Templates) on the data flow designer surface, and double click on it to edit it:
Select New Connection to create a new connection:
Use a preinstalled Amazon Ads Connector from Popular Connector List or press Search Online radio button to download Amazon Ads Connector. Once downloaded simply use it in the configuration:

Amazon Ads

Select your authentication scenario below to expand connection configuration steps to:

Configure the authentication in Amazon Ads.
Enter those details into the API Connection Manager configuration.

OAuth Authentication

Amazon Ads authentication

Amazon OAuth Security Profile has be created in Amazon Developer portal. [API reference]

Firstly, login into Amazon Developer portal in https://developer.amazon.com.
Then click Sign in.
If you don't have an account, press Create your Amazon Developer account button to create one.
Once logged in, click on your profile icon on the right-top of the window and hit Settings:
Then click Security Profiles and proceed with creating a new Security Profile:
After that, click Web Settings subtab, then hit Show Secret button to reveal the Client Secret (you will need it later), and click Edit to add a Redirect URL:
Continue by setting Allowed Return URLs (you can have your own or use https://zappysys.com/oauth):
Done! Now you can use Client ID, Client Secret, and Redirect URL when configuring OAuth Authentication parameters:

API Connection Manager configuration

Just perform these simple steps to finish authentication configuration:

Set Authentication Type to OAuth Authentication [OAuth]
Optional step. Modify API Base URL if needed (in most cases default will work).
Fill in all the required parameters and set optional parameters if needed.
Press Generate Token button to generate the tokens.
Finally, hit OK button:

Amazon Ads

OAuth Authentication [OAuth]

https://advertising-api.amazon.com/v2

Required Parameters
ClientId	Fill-in the parameter...
ClientSecret	Fill-in the parameter...
AuthorizationUrl	Fill-in the parameter...
ReturnUrl	Fill-in the parameter...
Scope	Fill-in the parameter...
Profile (click 'Generate Token' before this)	Fill-in the parameter...
Optional Parameters
RetryMode	RetryWhenStatusCodeMatch
RetryStatusCodeList	429
RetryCountMax	5
RetryMultiplyWaitTime	True

Find full details in the Amazon Ads Connector authentication reference.

Select Test Connection endpoint from the dropdown and hit Preview Data:

API Source - Amazon Ads

Read and write Amazon Ads data effortlessly. Integrate, manage, and automate campaigns, ad groups, and performance metrics — almost no coding required.

Amazon Ads

Test Connection

There are no parameters to configure.
That's it! We are done! Just in a few clicks we configured the call to Amazon Ads using Amazon Ads Connector.

You can load the source data into your desired destination using the Upsert Destination , which supports SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Amazon Redshift. We also offer other destinations such as CSV , Excel , Azure Table , Salesforce , and more . You can check out our SSIS PowerPack Tasks and components for more options. (*loaded in Trash Destination)

Deploy SSIS package to Azure Data Factory (ADF)

Once your SSIS package is complete, deploy it to the Azure-SSIS runtime within Azure Data Factory. The setup process requires you to upload the SSIS PowerPack installer to Azure Blob Storage and then customize the runtime configuration using the main.cmd file. For a complete walkthrough of these steps, see our detailed guide on the Azure Data Factory (SSIS) and Amazon Ads integration.

Conclusion

And there you have it — a complete guide on how to test connection in Azure Data Factory (SSIS) without writing complex code. All of this was powered by Amazon Ads Connector, which handled the REST API pagination and authentication for us automatically.

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More actions supported by Amazon Ads Connector

Got another use case in mind? We've documented the exact setups for a variety of essential Amazon Ads operations directly in Azure Data Factory (SSIS), so you can skip the trial and error. Find your next step-by-step guide below: