Book Image

Modern Data Architecture on AWS

By : Behram Irani
5 (1)
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

Improving data quality using Glue Data Quality

Data quality is one of the most important data governance components that no organization can ignore. To be a world-class data-driven organization, the data being used to derive insights needs to yield a high degree of accurate results. However, data analytics platforms collect, process, and consume data from many source systems, each with their own data formats and quality challenges. Therefore, data quality is a high-priority data governance measure that needs to be implemented judiciously.

Glue Data Quality

Recently, AWS introduced another feature in the Glue service that helps with data quality right inside the data pipelines. Let’s discuss AWS Glue Data Quality by bringing up a use case from GreatFin.

Use case for data quality using AWS Glue Data Quality

One of the LOBs for GreatFin has architected a data lake on Amazon S3 and designed all the layers of the data lake. They will bring all the data from all the source...