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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

AWS services for managing identity and permissions

We previously defined authentication as the process of validating that a claimed identity is that identity, and authorization as the process of authorizing access to a resource, based on a validated identity.

Within AWS, there are several ways to authenticate an identity, and for analytics on AWS, there are two primary ways to manage which identities can access which resources.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service

AWS IAM is a service that provides both authentication and authorization for the AWS Console, command-line interface (CLI), and application programming interface (API) calls.

AWS IAM also supports a federation of identities, meaning that you can configure IAM to use another identity provider for authentication, such as Active Directory or Okta.

Note that this section is not intended as a comprehensive guide to Identity and Access Management on AWS, but it does provide information on foundational...