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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 warehouse modernization using Redshift

We will start with the most obvious high-level use case: organizations that want to modernize their data warehouses. The primary reason to modernize is that traditional data warehouses are unable to keep up with the new emerging use cases. Due to their architectural limitations, traditional data warehouses are not able to handle the exponential growth in data volume along with the new variety of data that’s being produced. Long story short, traditional data warehouses have become slow, complex, and expensive. Let’s bring up the use case from GreatFin again.

Use case for data warehouse modernization

GreatFin has an on-premises data warehouse that is nearing its end of life. The continuous requests from businesses to support newer types of data analytics use cases have made this platform difficult to operate and expand. Its performance is becoming slow and the infrastructure and operating expenses are growing steadily. They...