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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

Chapter 6: Ingesting Batch and Streaming Data

Having developed a high-level architecture of our data pipeline, we can now dive deep into the varied components of the architecture. We will start with data ingestion so that in the hands-on section of this chapter, we can ingest data that we can use for the hands-on activities in future chapters.

Data engineers are often faced with the challenge of the five Vs of data. These are the variety of data (the diverse types and formats of data); the volume of data (the size of the dataset); the velocity of the data (how quickly the data is generated and needs to be ingested); the veracity or validity of the data (the quality, completeness, and credibility of data); and finally, the value of data (the value that the data can provide the business with).

In this chapter, we will look at several different types of data sources and examine the various tools available within AWS for ingesting data from these sources. We will also look at how...