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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 covered a major topic around data processing in the modern data architecture journey. We looked at how you can use Amazon EMR to solve many big-data processing use cases. EMR provides a fully managed platform for many open source projects, including the most popular ones—Spark, Hive, and Presto. We also revisited AWS Glue and looked at how Glue Studio assists data engineers in creating complex ETL jobs for data processing. We also covered a Glue streaming use case and how it complements the other streaming services that AWS provides. Finally, we looked at AWS Glue DataBrew and how it assists data scientists and data analysts to quickly profile data and apply data processing rules in an intuitive manner.

There are many more use cases that can be solved using some of these services, but at least what we covered in this chapter gives a basic understanding of solving typical use cases for these services. As always, the best way to learn is to be hands...