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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
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Section 2: Architecting and Implementing Data Lakes and Data Lake Houses
13
Section 3: The Bigger Picture: Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Machine Learning

Section 3: The Bigger Picture: Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Machine Learning

In Section 3 of the book, we examine the bigger picture of data analytics in modern organizations. We learn about the tools that data consumers commonly use to work with data transformed by data engineers, and briefly look into how machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) can draw rich insights out of data. We also get hands-on with tools for running ad hoc SQL queries on data in the data lake (Amazon Athena), for creating data visualizations (Amazon QuickSight), and for using AI to derive insights from data (Amazon Comprehend). We then conclude by looking at data engineering examples from the real world and explore some emerging trends in data engineering.

This section comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 11, Ad Hoc Queries with Amazon Athena
  • Chapter 12, Visualizing Data with Amazon QuickSight
  • Chapter 13, Enabling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning...