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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

Hands-on – ingesting streaming data

Earlier in this chapter, we looked at two options for ingesting streaming data into AWS, namely Amazon Kinesis and Amazon MSK. In this section, we will use the serverless Amazon Kinesis service to ingest streaming data. To generate streaming data, we will use the open source Amazon Kinesis Data Generator (KDG) In this section:

  • Configure Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest streaming data, and write the data out to Amazon S3.
  • Configure Amazon KDG to create a fake source of streaming data.

To get started, let's configure a new Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest streaming data and write it out to our Amazon S3 data lake.

Configuring Kinesis Data Firehose for streaming delivery to Amazon S3

Kinesis Data Firehose is designed to enable you to easily ingest data from streaming sources, and then write that data out to a supported target (such as Amazon S3, which we will do in this exercise). Let's get started:

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