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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

Cataloging your data to avoid the data swamp

Even if you do protect your data correctly and handle it as required by local regulations, if you do not make it easy for your users to find your analytic datasets and understand more about those datasets, your analytic data can become a liability.

You have probably heard about swamps, even if you have never actually been to one. Generally, swamps are known to be wet areas that smell pretty bad, and where some trees and other vegetation may grow, but the area is generally not fit to be used for most purposes (unless, of course, you're an ogre similar to Shrek, and you make your home in the swamp!).

In contrast to a swamp, when most people think about a lake, they picture beautiful scenery with clean water, a beautiful sunset, and perhaps a few ducks gently floating on the water. Most people would hate to find themselves in a swamp if they thought they were going to visit a beautiful lake.

In the world of data lakes, as a data...