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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

AWS AI services, along with use cases

AWS offers over 20 AI services providing different capabilities in core as well as specialized categories. Core areas include vision, speech, text, and chatbots, whereas specialized areas include business processes, search, healthcare, industrial, DevOps, and generative AI. For the purpose of this chapter, we will not be able to cover each and every AWS AI service along with its use cases, but we will quickly summarize them here so that you are aware of when to use them for your specific use cases:

AWS AI service

Description

Common use cases

Amazon Rekognition

Makes it easy to perform image as well as video analysis. You can build apps that leverage Rekognition to identify people, text, objects, and other activities from pictures and videos.

  • Identity verification...