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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at what operational analytics is and how organizations want a mechanism to gather insights from all their operational activities. All the system and application log data forms a major component of operational analytics.

We identified OpenSearch as the correct purpose-built tool for storing operational data. OpenSearch has a dashboard component that makes it easy to search for relevant information flexibly and cost-effectively. Along with specific plugins, OpenSearch Dashboards makes it easy to gain insights into log data.

We then looked into how Amazon OpenSearch Service makes the task of managing the OpenSearch cluster easy. Customers can focus on the operational insights part without having to manage the underlying infrastructure alongside the software configurations.

After, we walked through typical use cases that OS helps solve. We looked at a few options to ingest data into the OpenSearch domain. Once the data had been ingested, we looked...