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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
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

AWS services for data encryption and security monitoring

Previously, we discussed common data protection concepts, such as data encryption. Now, we will look at some of the AWS services that can be used to help protect and secure our data.

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

AWS KMS simplifies the process of creating and managing security keys for encrypting and decrypting data in AWS. The AWS KMS service is a core service in the AWS ecosystem, enabling users to easily manage data encryption across several AWS services.

There are a large number of AWS services that can work with AWS KMS to enable data encryption, including the following AWS analytical services:

  • Amazon AppFlow
  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon EMR
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams/Kinesis Firehose/Kinesis Video Streams
  • Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)
  • Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon S3
  • AWS Data Migration Service (DMS)
  • AWS Glue/Glue DataBrew...