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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

File and storage migration

A lot of data still resides in files for many reasons. When the data resides in files, we just need an easy transfer mechanism to bring it over into the raw layer of the data lake in S3. In this section, we will explore some of the AWS services that make it easy to transfer files into the AWS ecosystem.

AWS DataSync

AWS DataSync makes it easy to continuously migrate on-prem data into many AWS storages, including Amazon S3. DataSync has an agent that needs to be deployed that will help do all the heavy lifting for the data migration. Before we look at the usage patterns, let’s look at a use case at GreatFin that makes DataSync very appealing.

Use case for data migration using AWS DataSync

Multiple LOBs at GreatFin want to save costs by retiring multi-terabyte data stored on their on-prem storage systems. They want to continuously replicate new data as it arrives on their on-prem storage. Also, because of regulatory requirements, they have...