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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

SaaS data ingestion using Amazon AppFlow

We are in an era where a lot of applications are SaaS based. Every SaaS-based application is different and has its own mechanism for capturing and storing data. Many SaaS applications also allow for reporting inside them, but many times, organizations want a holistic view across the whole data platform, which means they may want to join different datasets from multiple such applications, to derive the right level of insights from the data.

Let’s try to correlate this with a use case from GreatFin. If you recall from Chapter 2, the marketing department wanted to find top leads for offering a new type of certificate of deposit (CD) account to select a few high-net-worth customers. Let’s use that example to build our SaaS data ingestion use case.

Use case for data migration from a SaaS application

The marketing department ran a campaign to identify top leads who would be a great fit for offering a new CD account. The lead...