AWS Data Pipeline vs Lob: What are the differences?

What is AWS Data Pipeline? Process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services. AWS Data Pipeline is a web service that provides a simple management system for data-driven workflows. Using AWS Data Pipeline, you define a pipeline composed of the “data sources” that contain your data, the “activities” or business logic such as EMR jobs or SQL queries, and the “schedule” on which your business logic executes. For example, you could define a job that, every hour, runs an Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)–based analysis on that hour’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) log data, loads the results into a relational database for future lookup, and then automatically sends you a daily summary email.

What is Lob? Print and Mail for Developers. The simplest way to integrate printing into your applications.

AWS Data Pipeline and Lob are primarily classified as "Data Transfer" and "Printing API" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by AWS Data Pipeline are:

• You can find (and use) a variety of popular AWS Data Pipeline tasks in the AWS Management Console’s template section.
• Hourly analysis of Amazon S3‐based log data
• Daily replication of AmazonDynamoDB data to Amazon S3

On the other hand, Lob provides the following key features:

• Send. Print. Mail. - Send everything from letters to posters via an HTTP request. Your content gets printed on high quality paper by the best commercial equipment available. Delivered to any destination in the world. We keep you updated through the entire process.
• RESTful API- Control your entire print job via our REST API.
• For Bills and Invoices, Posters and Flyers, Postcards and Photos