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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

The evolution of data management for analytics

Innovations in data management and processing over the last several decades have laid the foundations of modern-day analytic systems. When you look at the analytics landscape of a typical mature organization, you will find the footprints of many of these innovations in their data analytics platforms. As a data engineer, you may come across analytic pipelines that were built using technologies from different generations, and you may be expected to understand them. Therefore, it is important to be familiar with some of the key developments in analytics over time, as well as to understand the foundational concepts of analytical data storage, data management, and data pipelines.

Databases and data warehouses

Data processing and analytic systems have evolved over several decades. In the 1980s, the focus was on batch processing, where data would be processed in nightly runs on large mainframe computers.

In the 1990s, the use of databases...