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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

Analytics use case with GenAI

It’s just a matter of time before GenAI makes its way into most of the services used to build a modern data platform. In this section, we will just provide a glimpse of how GenAI can make analytics on AWS even easier. As always, here is a use case from GreatFin.

Use case for GenAI for data analytics

GreatFin has built a modern data platform on AWS and uses multiple purpose-built stores such as Amazon Redshift as a data warehouse, Amazon RDS as a transactional database, and a data lake on S3. To get data from these systems, complex SQL queries need to be written. Recently, there has been a steady request from non-technical users to provide them with a mechanism by which they can just converse in natural language and get the results from these data systems.

GreatFin has been asked to invest in mechanisms that allow anyone in the organization to request data using plain English questions. Under the covers, this is translated into the necessary...