This Guidance demonstrates how to customize and apply normalization rules on data as it arrives and prepare it for AWS Entity Resolution. Normalization standardizes the input data through tasks such as removing extra spaces and special characters or standardizing to lowercase. This Guidance provides a cloud development kit (CDK) code that demonstrates how to read the data input from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, apply the normalization rules, and prepare the resultant dataset for use in AWS Entity Resolution.