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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)
1
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

Hands-on – creating an Amazon Athena workgroup and configuring Athena settings

In this section, we're going to create and configure a new Athena Workgroup and learn more about how Workgroups can help separate groups of users:

  1. Log into AWS Management Console and access the Athena service using this link: https://console.aws.amazon.com/athena.
  2. Expand the left-hand menu, and click on Workgroups to access the workgroup management page.

    Figure 11.2 – Athena Console showing Workgroups

  3. On the Workgroup management page, click on Create workgroup and enter the following values for our new Workgroup. For the items not listed here, leave the defaults as-is:
    • Workgroup name: Provide a descriptive name for the Workgroup, such as datalake-user-sandbox.
    • Description: Optionally, provide a description for this Workgroup, such as Sandbox Workgroup for new datalake-users.
    • Query result location: In the hands-on exercises in Chapter 4, Data Cataloging, Security, and Governance...