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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

Summary

In this chapter, we went through why so many organizations prefer to build their data lakes on Amazon S3. We then went through different layers of data lakes in S3 and the purpose of each of them. Along with the layers of data, we also looked at how Glue Data Catalog helps to capture the metadata about the data in the form of tables. We also touched upon a new trend around having to build a transactional data lake, which involves selecting a table format that aligns closely with the specific use case being solved. Finally, we put it all together to solve a specific use case and saw it all come together, at least from the data storage and catalog side of things.

We have the data in S3 and we have the catalog of this data in Glue Data Catalog in the form of tables. The real value of this setup is that businesses can easily consume this data to derive insights from it. This leads us to the next section of this book around different purpose-built services and how each of them...