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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 QuickSight

Keeping all the challenges of other BI tools in mind, Amazon QuickSight (QS) came about as a cloud based, unified and modern business intelligence tool for visualization and reporting purposes. QuickSight focuses on four key areas.

  1. Enterprise BI capabilities allows businesses to use variety of visual options to interactively analyze all the data in a governed manner
  2. Natural language processing with ML allows faster insights from data without explicitly creating rules of visualization
  3. Enterprise ready reporting makes it easy to create paginated and scheduled reports in the cloud
  4. Embedded analytics makes it easy to incorporate dashboards and visualization on to any custom web application

Let’s look at some of the features of QuickSight that makes it a very appealing BI service for many businesses building their modern data platforms.

  • Fully managed and serverless service with pay-for-usage model. Unified authoring and consumption...