What is AWS B2B Data Interchange (B2Bi)?

AWS B2B Data Interchange automates the transformation and generation of Electronic Interchange Data (EDI) documents to and from JSON and XML data formats. Businesses use EDI to exchange transactional data with trading partners, such as suppliers and end customers, using common EDI standardized formats such as X12, EDIFACT, or HL7v2.

Currently, many of these businesses use EDI solutions that charge fixed licensing fees, lack operational visibility, and require tedious onboarding processes that result in transactional errors and missed SLAs. Use of these traditional EDI solutions often lead to ever-growing operational costs and damaged relationships with business partners. With B2Bi, customers can use a low-code interface to easily manage their business partner relationships and automate the transformation or generation of EDI documents at scale and with pay-as-you-go pricing.

AWS B2B Data Interchange reduces the time, complexity, and cost associated with managing and exchanging transactional data across organizational boundaries. As a result, customers can easily move data to and from their downstream business applications or data lakes and focus more on gaining insight from their data using the various analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning services offered by AWS.

How to get started with B2Bi

If you are a first-time user of B2Bi, we recommend that you begin by reading Transforming and generating EDI.

For a self-paced learning experience, go through the EDI document exchange with AWS B2B Data Interchange Workshop, created by the B2Bi service team. In this workshop, you learn how to receive and transform EDI documents from your business partners using AWS B2B Data Interchange and AWS Transfer Family.

Accessing B2Bi

You can work with AWS B2B Data Interchange in any of the following ways.

AWS Management Console

The console is a web-based user interface for managing B2Bi and AWS resources. If you've signed up for an AWS account, you can access the B2Bi console by signing into the AWS Management Console and choosing B2Bi from the AWS Management Console home page.

AWS Command Line Interface

You can use the AWS command line tools to issue commands or build scripts at your system's command line to perform AWS (including B2Bi) tasks.

The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) provides commands for a broad set of AWS services. The AWS CLI is supported on Windows, macOS, and Linux. To get started, see the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

AWS SDKs

The architecture of B2Bi is designed to be programming language-neutral, using AWS supported interfaces to store and retrieve objects. You can access B2Bi and AWS programmatically by using the AWS B2B Data Interchange REST API. The REST API is an HTTP interface to B2Bi.

For information about the AWS SDKs, including how to download and install them, see Tools for AWS.