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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 processing using Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR is a platform that enables big data processing at a scale. It’s a managed service that contains over 20 open source frameworks, including popular data processing engines such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Presto, and Trino. It was specifically created keeping in mind all the challenges we went through with a data processing platform.

There is so much information about EMR that a separate book exists that describes in detail each and every aspect of EMR. However, the purpose of this book is not to explain all of these aspects in detail but to understand when EMR can be used and which use cases it helps to solve. But let’s first get an overview of EMR.

Amazon EMR overview

EMR provides all the necessary tools that are required to process data at scale. EMR manages the underlying software and hardware needed to provide a cost-effective, scalable, and easy-to-manage data platform. The best way to get an overview of a service is...