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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 consumption patterns

All the effort of ingesting, curating, and securing data in Redshift is so that it can be consumed by different personas inside the organization, as well as outside by the customers of the company. The following figure highlights some of the main ways in which data is consumed from Redshift:

Figure 7.11 – Amazon Redshift consumption patterns

Figure 7.11 – Amazon Redshift consumption patterns

Let’s dive into the details of some of the consumption patterns with Redshift and also understand the use cases better.

Redshift Spectrum

Before we look at use cases that consume data stored in Redshift, we have to address the elephant in the room first – Redshift Spectrum. Redshift Spectrum provides a unique ability inside Redshift to transparently query the data stored in the S3 data lake. The data lake tables that are stored in the Glue Data Catalog can be queried and joined with regular Redshift tables. This is truly what a modern data warehouse looks like and...