Special Characters - AWS Data Pipeline

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Special Characters

AWS Data Pipeline uses certain characters that have a special meaning in pipeline definitions, as shown in the following table.

Special Character Description Examples
@

Runtime field. This character is a field name prefix for a field that is only available when a pipeline runs.

@actualStartTime

@failureReason

@resourceStatus
#

Expression. Expressions are delimited by: "#{" and "}" and the contents of the braces are evaluated by AWS Data Pipeline. For more information, see Expressions.

#{format(myDateTime,'YYYY-MM-dd hh:mm:ss')}

s3://mybucket/#{id}.csv
*

Encrypted field. This character is a field name prefix to indicate that AWS Data Pipeline should encrypt the contents of this field in transit between the console or CLI and the AWS Data Pipeline service.

 *password