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Data Engineering with AWS - Second Edition

By : Gareth Eagar
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Book Image

Data Engineering with AWS - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Gareth Eagar

Overview of this book

This book, authored by a seasoned Senior Data Architect with 25 years of experience, aims to help you achieve proficiency in using the AWS ecosystem for data engineering. This revised edition provides updates in every chapter to cover the latest AWS services and features, takes a refreshed look at data governance, and includes a brand-new section on building modern data platforms which covers; implementing a data mesh approach, open-table formats (such as Apache Iceberg), and using DataOps for automation and observability. You'll begin by reviewing the key concepts and essential AWS tools in a data engineer's toolkit and getting acquainted with modern data management approaches. You'll then architect a data pipeline, review raw data sources, transform the data, and learn how that transformed data is used by various data consumers. You’ll learn how to ensure strong data governance, and about populating data marts and data warehouses along with how a data lakehouse fits into the picture. After that, you'll be introduced to AWS tools for analyzing data, including those for ad-hoc SQL queries and creating visualizations. Then, you'll explore how the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence can be used to draw new insights from data. In the final chapters, you'll discover transactional data lakes, data meshes, and how to build a cutting-edge data platform on AWS. By the end of this AWS book, you'll be able to execute data engineering tasks and implement a data pipeline on AWS like a pro!
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Section 1: AWS Data Engineering Concepts and Trends
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Section 2: Architecting and Implementing Data Engineering Pipelines and Transformations
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Section 3: The Bigger Picture: Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Machine Learning
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Section 4: Modern Strategies: Open Table Formats, Data Mesh, DataOps, and Preparing for the Real World
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Index

AWS service integrations for building transactional data lakes

AWS services constantly evolve as new services are introduced and existing services have new functionality added. This applies to the AWS analytic services as well, with many of these services introducing support for these new transactional open table formats over the last few years. In this section, we will look at the support for open table formats in various services, as at the time of publishing.

However, make sure to review the latest AWS documentation to understand the latest status of support across the services.

Open table format support in AWS Glue

AWS Glue has broad support for open table formats across the different components of the Glue service. In this section, we examine open table support in two of the key Glue components.

AWS Glue crawler support

As covered earlier in this book, the AWS Glue crawler is a component of the Glue service that can scan a data source (such as Amazon S3...