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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

The role of a modern data architecture

A modern data architecture removes the rigid boundaries between data systems and seamlessly integrates the data lake, data warehouse, and purpose-built data stores. A modern data architecture recognizes the fact that taking a one-size-fits-all approach leads to compromises in the data and analytics platform. And we are not just referring to seamless integration between data systems; it also has to encompass unified governance, along with ease of data movement.

A modern data architecture is a direct response to all the challenges we have seen so far, including exponential data growth, performance and scalability issues, security and data governance nightmares, data silo issues, and—of course—pinching high expenses.

The following diagram shows a modern data architecture at a high level:

Figure 1.2 – Modern data architecture

Figure 1.2 – Modern data architecture

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