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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

What is data governance?

Data governance refers to the overall management and implementation of policies, procedures, and standards for ensuring the high quality, integrity, and security of data in an organization.

Data is a business asset and is owned by specific LOBs in an organization. The process of improving data is continuous as new data is constantly generated and utilized by businesses for their daily operations. The improvement of data is quantified by data owners and its impact is linked directly to business outcomes.

Along with the data improvement process, the privacy and security portion of the data is also a key responsibility of the data owners. As soon as the data is compromised or misused, it can lead to severe consequences for an organization, impacting its operations, reputation, and financial well-being.

The following figure highlights the high-level components of data governance. We will dive into more details as we unfold this topic in this chapter:

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