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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

Data storage optimizations

In any data platform, the storage layer is the foundation since all the data across different systems inside the platform is stored in different types of storage. Even though the data storage cost is often not the most dominant part of the overall expenditure on the data platform, it can start to creep up if the best practices are not followed.

Let’s bring up a scenario that requires a deep dive into storage optimization.

Use case for storage optimization

GreatFin has established a data platform on AWS and uses many of the data and analytics services provided by AWS to operate different areas of the platform. After onboarding data from a variety of sources, the combined platform storage across all LOBs has grown to a petabyte scale. GreatFin’s storage infrastructure on AWS lacks optimization, leading to potential challenges such as high storage costs, performance bottlenecks, limited scalability, and inadequate data protection.

The...