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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

Predictive Analytics

A few years back, any discussion on artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) used to be a niche topic, relegated to the end chapters of most data platform books. The primary reason for this lack of urgency was due to the fact that AI/ML projects didn’t give a positive return on investment (ROI) for most businesses, due to the high total cost of ownership (TCO), for making AI/ML-based predictions a reality. However, with the onset of cloud technologies and the benefits it brings to businesses, AI/ML has become one of the primary topics of discussion and implementation for almost all businesses. We are now at a stage where any organization not doing any kind of predictive analytics is at risk of losing out to its competitors, who are constantly striving to look into the future and make business decisions based on it.

The topic of AI/ML is dense, and often, you will see a series of books catering to specific areas of it. Since we only have a chapter...