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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

Modern Data Architecture on AWS

Before we dive deep into the actual data and analytics use cases and how to design and build them, let’s address the elephant in the room—what is a modern data architecture, and why build it on Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

One of the fundamental tenets of a modern data architecture on AWS is to seamlessly integrate your data lake, data warehouse, and purpose-built data stores. In the previous prologue, we looked at what a data warehouse is and what it does. We also looked at the data tier in a three-tier architecture, typically referred to as a relational database management system (RDBMS) and considered a type of purpose-built store. The type of system we haven’t really explored in much detail yet is the data lake. The next chapter is completely dedicated to data lakes, but before we go any further in this chapter, it is important to get some context around the need for data lakes in the first place.

In this chapter, we will...