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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

Why choose Amazon S3 as a data lake store?

Before we dive deep into the actual data and analytics use cases and explore how to design data lakes on AWS, it is first important to understand why Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is the preferred choice for building a data lake and why it is used as a storage layer to store all kinds of data in a centralized location.

If you recall from the discussions we had in Chapter 1, an ideal storage for building a data lake should inherently be scalable, durable, highly performant, easy to use, secure, cost-effective, and integrated with other building blocks of the data lake ecosystem. So, we ask a very important question: why choose Amazon S3 as a data lake store?

S3 checks all the boxes on what we look for in a store for building data lakes. Here are some of the features of S3:

  • Scalable: S3 is a petabyte-scale object store with virtually unlimited storage
  • Durable: S3 is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9s) of data durability...