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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

Compute resource optimizations

In any typical data modern data platform that’s been built using AWS data and analytics services, the platform infrastructure expenses will be dominated by the compute expenses provided by many of the services. Take any service we discussed in this book, be it DMS for data ingestion, Glue and EMR for data processing, Kinesis and MSK for streaming data, Redshift for data warehouses, Athena for ad hoc analytics on the data lake, different SageMaker tools for ML, OpenSearch Service for operational analytics, QuickSight for business intelligence and many other supporting services – if you look at the overall cost of each of these services, you will find that the vast majority of the expense comes from the compute resources supporting these services. The reason is simple – CPUs/GPUs are significantly more expensive than storage, memory, and networking.

Compute resources are also one of the most important dimensions regarding the optimal...