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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 – cleaning up your AWS account

In the hands-on section of Chapter 1, An Introduction to Data Engineering, we went through how to create a new AWS account. If you created a new account at that point, and have used that account to work through the exercises in this book, you may want to delete that account, now that you have reached the final chapter of this book. We'll include instructions on how to do that here.

However, if this was your first AWS account, you may decide that you want to keep the account open so that you can continue to explore and learn more about AWS using other resources. If that is you, we'll include some instructions on how to check your account billing to detect which resources are still being charged for.

Reviewing AWS Billing to identify the resources being charged for

In this section, we will go through how to review your AWS billing console to determine which resources you are being charged for:

  1. Log in to the AWS...