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Modern Data Architecture on AWS

By : Behram Irani
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Book Image

Modern Data Architecture on AWS

5 (1)
By: Behram Irani

Overview of this book

Many IT leaders and professionals are adept at extracting data from a particular type of database and deriving value from it. However, designing and implementing an enterprise-wide holistic data platform with purpose-built data services, all seamlessly working in tandem with the least amount of manual intervention, still poses a challenge. This book will help you explore end-to-end solutions to common data, analytics, and AI/ML use cases by leveraging AWS services. The chapters systematically take you through all the building blocks of a modern data platform, including data lakes, data warehouses, data ingestion patterns, data consumption patterns, data governance, and AI/ML patterns. Using real-world use cases, each chapter highlights the features and functionalities of numerous AWS services to enable you to create a scalable, flexible, performant, and cost-effective modern data platform. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with all the necessary architectural patterns and be able to apply this knowledge to efficiently build a modern data platform for your organization using AWS services.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Foundational Data Lake
5
Part 2: Purpose-Built Services And Unified Data Access
17
Part 3: Govern, Scale, Optimize And Operationalize

Data warehousing using Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse service. It is designed on the principles of massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, which allows users to analyze large volumes of data efficiently. Redshift addresses a whole range of analytical use cases, but more importantly, it addresses the top three areas of what businesses are looking for:

  1. Analyzing data by breaking down data silos.
  2. Providing the best price performance at scale.
  3. Providing easy, secure, and reliable insights from the data.

Before we look at some use cases, let’s quickly understand the basics of Redshift.

Amazon Redshift basics

Redshift uses a massively parallel, shared-nothing architecture. It uses columnar storage, which means data is stored in columns instead of rows.

This columnar storage approach has several advantages in terms of data compression, query performance, and analytics:

  • Compression...