What happens if a activity fails in AWS Data Pipeline

Question

What happens if an activity that I attached to data pipeline fails? How will I know what is the error? 

Answer 1

An activity fails if all of its rerun attempts results with a failed state. By default, an activity retries three times before entering a hard failure state. You can increase the number of automatic retries to 10; however, the system does not allow indefinite retries. After an activity exhausts its attempts, it triggers any configured onFailure alarm and will not try to run again unless you manually issue a rerun command via the CLI, API, or console button.