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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

Data lake layers

Now that we have a broader business use case for setting up a data lake, let’s look at a use case that will help us define what the different layers of a typical data lake are and why they are required.

Use case for creating data lake layers

GreatFin has different LOBs, and within each of these LOBs, multiple personas have different tasks to perform on the data. Each persona may need specific access to different sets of data. They will all need the data to be formatted and stored in a certain way for them to do their day-to-day operations easily. For example, data engineers may need access to the raw source data so that they can profile the data and understand the quality of the data. Data scientists may need access to a standardized form of datasets so that they can do feature engineering for creating machine learning (ML) models. Data analysts may need access to business-friendly datasets so that they can derive insights from the data.

Before we get...