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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 use-cases

Let’s dive straight to how Amazon QuickSight can help solve many of the business intelligence and reporting use-cases that organizations may have.

Interactive dashboards

Use-case for interactive dashboards using Amazon QuickSight

Many LOBs of GreatFin have setup a combination of data lake on Amazon S3 along with data warehouse on Amazon Redshift. The data in the data lake is standardized in the data lake and multiple personas are able to query different datasets using Amazon Athena. Similarly, the data that’s being stored in Amazon Redshift is all ready for consumption in the final base tables. Business also uses other data stores such as Amazon OpenSearch for operational analytics, Amazon Timestream for storing time series data.

One of the key consumption patterns for this data is for business leaders to get an aggregated view of how the company is doing on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. The business also wants the ability...