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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

Amazon OpenSearch Service

OpenSearch (https://opensearch.org/) is an open source search engine forked from Elasticsearch 7.10.2. It also contains a visualization dashboard component that is forked from Kibana 7.10.2. OpenSearch has a distributed architecture where documents are collected in an index; these indices are divided into shards. Multiple nodes are present in an OpenSearch domain, where shards are replicated across nodes for high availability. In that sense, a lot of configuration, setup, and operational overhead is needed to set up a self-managed OpenSearch platform.

To alleviate the infrastructure setup pain, AWS provides a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch clusters. Amazon OpenSearch Service can either be created in provisioned mode, where users get to select the type and number of nodes to leverage in a cluster, or it can be in serverless mode, where there is no sizing to be done. Provisioned mode is suitable for steady and...