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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

Technical requirements

In the last section of this chapter, we will go through a hands-on exercise that uses Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda, to send some text to the Amazon Comprehend service so that we can extract insights from it.

As with the other hands-on activities in this book, if you have access to an administrator user in your AWS account, you should have the permissions needed to complete these activities. If not, you will need to ensure that your user is granted access to create Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda resources, as well as at least read-only permissions for Amazon Comprehend APIs.

You can find the code files of this chapter in the GitHub repository using the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Data-Engineering-with-AWS/tree/main/Chapter13