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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

Summary

Data engineering is an exciting role to be in and promises to continue to offer interesting challenges, constant learning opportunities, and increasing importance in helping organizations draw out the maximum value that they can from their data assets. And the cloud is an exciting place to build data engineering pipelines.

Also, AWS has a proven track record in listening to their customers and continuing to innovate based on their customer requirements. Things move quickly with AWS services, so hold on tight for the ride.

If you're new to data engineering on AWS, then this book is just the start of what could be a long and interesting journey for you. There is much more to be learned than what could ever be captured in a single book, or even a volume of books. Much of what you will learn will be through practical experience and things you learn on the job, as well as from other data engineers.

But this book, and other books like it, as well as resources such...