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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

Fundamentals of generative AI

The fundamental of GenAI always revolves around FMs. These FMs are pre-trained on vast amounts of unstructured data and contain a large number of parameters, sometimes in the billions, which makes the FMs capable of learning new complex concepts. FMs that are used for natural language processing, such as the ones from OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4, which are used in Chat-GPT, are pre-trained on a diverse range of internet text, enabling them to learn patterns, grammar, and general knowledge from vast amounts. These FMs are also called large language models (LLMs).

FMs differ from other ML models in several ways:

  • Scale: FMs are trained on massive amounts of data, often involving billions of parameters. This large scale allows them to capture complex patterns and relationships in the data.
  • Pre-training and fine-tuning: FMs undergo a two-step training process. First, they are pre-trained on a large corpus of publicly available text from the...