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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

Cost optimization tools

AWS provides several cost optimization tools that can help you manage and optimize your AWS spending. The following sections show some key cost optimization tools offered by AWS.

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer is a built-in cost management tool that provides visibility into your AWS costs and usage. It allows you to analyze your costs, view historical spending patterns, and forecast future costs. You can drill down into specific cost categories, services, or regions to identify areas where cost optimizations can be made.

Cost Explorer allows you to look at different service spends for each month, as shown in the following screenshot. This gives you a good understanding of rising costs that might require optimization reviews:

Figure 16.14 – AWS Cost Explorer

Figure 16.14 – AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Budgets

AWS Budgets enables you to set cost and usage budgets for your AWS resources. You can define spending thresholds and receive alerts when your...