What service allows you to create and manage data pipelines in AWS?

The service that allows for the creation and management of data pipelines within AWS is AWS Data Pipeline. This fully managed service is designed specifically to facilitate the movement and transformation of data across different AWS services and on-premises data sources. It provides a flexible and scalable way to automate data workflows, allowing users to define data-driven workflows that move and process data at specified intervals.

AWS Data Pipeline supports a variety of tasks, such as copying data between AWS services (e.g., moving data from Amazon S3 to Amazon RDS) and performing data processing using activities that can be executed on EC2 instances. Users can build complex workflows by chaining together multiple processing steps, enabling the orchestration of data movement and transformation in a structured manner.

The other services mentioned, while related to data processing and workflows, do not provide the same level of direct functionality for managing data pipelines. AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that runs code in response to events but does not inherently manage data workflows. AWS Glue is primarily an ETL service that prepares and loads data, which may be part of a data pipeline but does not manage the entire pipeline itself. AWS Step Functions is a workflow service that coordinates application components through visual workflows, which can include Lambda functions, but it is