AWS B2B Data Interchange introduces custom validation rules

AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports custom validation rules for X12 EDI documents, enabling you to expand and alter the validation logic of the X12 ANSI standard to align with custom agreements with your trading partners.

AWS B2B Data Interchange automates validation, transformation, and generation of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) documents such as ANSI X12 documents to and from JSON and XML data formats. With this launch, you can expand and alter the validation logic of the X12 ANSI standard. You can choose if certain elements need to be present and what length and values of elements are allowed for documents to pass the validation. AWS B2B Data Interchange will automatically validate X12 EDI documents against a combination of the X12 standard and your custom rules. Validation status will be communicated in a generated functional acknowledgment X12 EDI document (997/999) and in an emitted EventBridge event. In case of validation failure, AWS B2B Data Interchange will also generate a human-readable plain language explanation of validation errors and store it alongside your output files. You can use these events and data to trigger and streamline your validation remediation workflow, reducing the time and costs to process your X12 documents.

Support for custom validation rules for X12 EDI documents is available in all AWS Regions where the AWS B2B Data Interchange service is available. To get started with building event-driven EDI workloads on AWS B2B Data Interchange, take the self-paced workshop or refer to the AWS B2B Data Interchange user guide.