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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

Hands-on – architecting a sample pipeline

For the hands-on portion of this chapter, you will review the detailed notes from a whiteboarding session held for the fictional company GP Widgets Inc. As you go through the notes, you should create a whiteboard architecture, either on an actual whiteboard or on a piece of poster board. Alternatively, you can create the whiteboard using a free online design tool, such as the one available at http://diagrams.net.

As a starting point for your whiteboarding session, you can use the following template. You can recreate this on your whiteboard or poster board, or you can access the diagrams.net template for this via the GitHub site for of this book:

Figure 5.7 – Generic whiteboarding template

Note that the three zones included in the template (landing zone, clean zone, and curated zone) are commonly used for data lakes. However, some data lakes may only have two zones, while others may have four or more...