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Data Engineering with AWS

By : Gareth Eagar
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Data Engineering with AWS

By: Gareth Eagar

Overview of this book

Written by a Senior Data Architect with over twenty-five years of experience in the business, Data Engineering for AWS is a book whose sole aim is to make you proficient in using the AWS ecosystem. Using a thorough and hands-on approach to data, this book will give aspiring and new data engineers a solid theoretical and practical foundation to succeed with AWS. As you progress, you’ll be taken through the services and the skills you need to architect and implement data pipelines on AWS. You'll begin by reviewing important data engineering concepts and some of the core AWS services that form a part of the data engineer's toolkit. You'll then architect a data pipeline, review raw data sources, transform the data, and learn how the transformed data is used by various data consumers. You’ll also learn about populating data marts and data warehouses along with how a data lakehouse fits into the picture. Later, you'll be introduced to AWS tools for analyzing data, including those for ad-hoc SQL queries and creating visualizations. In the final chapters, you'll understand how the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence can be used to draw new insights from data. By the end of this AWS book, you'll be able to carry out data engineering tasks and implement a data pipeline on AWS independently.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1: AWS Data Engineering Concepts and Trends
6
Section 2: Architecting and Implementing Data Lakes and Data Lake Houses
13
Section 3: The Bigger Picture: Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Machine Learning

Examining the options for orchestrating pipelines in AWS

As you will have noticed throughout this book, AWS offers many different building blocks for architecting solutions. When it comes to pipeline orchestration, AWS provides native serverless orchestration engines with AWS Data Pipeline and AWS Step Function, a managed open source project with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), and service-specific orchestration with AWS Glue Workflows.

There are pros and cons to using each of these solutions, depending on your use case. And when you're making a decision, there are multiple factors to consider, such as the level of management effort, the ease of integration with your target ETL engine, logging, error handling mechanisms, and cost and platform independence.

In this section, we'll examine each of the four pipeline orchestration options.

AWS Data Pipeline for managing ETL between data sources

AWS Data Pipeline is one of the oldest services that...