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Data Engineering with AWS

Data Engineering with AWS - Second Edition

By : Eagar
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Data Engineering with AWS

Data Engineering with AWS

4.8 (31)
By: 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

An Introduction to Data Engineering

Data engineering continues to be a fast-growing career path and a role in high demand, as data becomes ever more critical to organizations of all sizes. For those that enjoy the challenge of putting together the “puzzle pieces” that build out complex data pipelines to ingest raw data, and then transform and optimize that data for varied data consumers, it can be a really rewarding career.

In this chapter, we look at the many ways that data has become an important, and increasingly valuable, corporate asset. We also review some of the challenges that organizations face as they deal with increasing volumes of data, and how data engineers can use cloud-based services to help overcome these challenges. We then set the foundations for the hands-on activities in this book by providing step-by-step details on creating a new Amazon Web Services (AWS) account.

Throughout this book, we are going to cover a number of topics that teach the fundamentals of developing data engineering pipelines on AWS, but we’ll get started in this chapter with these topics:

  • The rise of big data as a corporate asset
  • The challenges of ever-growing datasets
  • The role of the data engineer as a big data enabler
  • The benefits of the cloud when building big data analytic solutions
  • Hands-on – create or access an AWS account for following along with the hands-on activities in this book
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