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Serverless ETL and Analytics with AWS Glue

By : Vishal Pathak, Subramanya Vajiraya, Noritaka Sekiyama, Tomohiro Tanaka, Albert Quiroga, Ishan Gaur
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Serverless ETL and Analytics with AWS Glue

By: Vishal Pathak, Subramanya Vajiraya, Noritaka Sekiyama, Tomohiro Tanaka, Albert Quiroga, Ishan Gaur

Overview of this book

Organizations these days have gravitated toward services such as AWS Glue that undertake undifferentiated heavy lifting and provide serverless Spark, enabling you to create and manage data lakes in a serverless fashion. This guide shows you how AWS Glue can be used to solve real-world problems along with helping you learn about data processing, data integration, and building data lakes. Beginning with AWS Glue basics, this book teaches you how to perform various aspects of data analysis such as ad hoc queries, data visualization, and real-time analysis using this service. It also provides a walk-through of CI/CD for AWS Glue and how to shift left on quality using automated regression tests. You’ll find out how data security aspects such as access control, encryption, auditing, and networking are implemented, as well as getting to grips with useful techniques such as picking the right file format, compression, partitioning, and bucketing. As you advance, you’ll discover AWS Glue features such as crawlers, Lake Formation, governed tables, lineage, DataBrew, Glue Studio, and custom connectors. The concluding chapters help you to understand various performance tuning, troubleshooting, and monitoring options. By the end of this AWS book, you’ll be able to create, manage, troubleshoot, and deploy ETL pipelines using AWS Glue.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1 – Introduction, Concepts, and the Basics of AWS Glue
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Section 2 – Data Preparation, Management, and Security
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Section 3 – Tuning, Monitoring, Data Lake Common Scenarios, and Interesting Edge Cases

Features of AWS Glue

AWS Glue has different features that appear disjointed, but in reality, they are interdependent. Often, users have to use a combination of these features to achieve their goals.

The following are the key features of AWS Glue:

  • AWS Glue Data Catalog
  • AWS Glue Connections
  • AWS Glue Crawlers and Classifiers
  • AWS Glue Schema Registry
  • AWS Glue Jobs
  • AWS Glue Notebooks and interactive sessions
  • AWS Glue Triggers
  • AWS Glue Workflows
  • AWS Glue Blueprints
  • AWS Glue ML
  • AWS Glue Studio
  • AWS Glue DataBrew
  • AWS Glue Elastic Views

Now that we know the different features and services involved in executing an AWS Glue workload, let’s discuss the fundamental concepts related to some of these features.

AWS Glue Data Catalog

A Data Catalog can be defined as an inventory of data assets in an organization that helps data professionals find and understand relevant datasets to extract business value. A Data Catalog...