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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

Business Intelligence

From a business point of view, all the investments made to create a modern analytics platform is to get timely insights from the data. In many of the previous chapters of this book, we discussed topics ranging from data ingestion, data curation, data transformation and data storage. All the investment made in the analytics platform is only worth the time, effort and cost if valuable insights can be drawn from the data. Data consumption patterns dictate what an analytics platform should look like. One of the key data consumption patterns is around presenting the data to different personas in a way so that it can easily be understood. The whole point of doing data analytics is so that business decisions can be taken, to steer the organization towards rapid growth, based on the insights derived from the data. The process of deriving actionable insights from the data is termed as business intelligence (BI). To make it easy to gather insights, many organizations rely...