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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 services for ingesting data

The first step in building big data analytic solutions is to ingest data from a variety of sources into AWS. In this section, we introduce some of the core AWS services designed to help with this; however, this should not be considered a comprehensive review of every possible way to ingest data into AWS.Don't feel overwhelmed by the number of services we cover in this section! We will explore approaches for deciding on the right service for your specific use case in later chapters, but it is important to have a good understanding of the available tools upfront.

Overview of Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS)

One of the most common ingestion use cases is to sync data from a database system into an analytic pipeline, either landing the data in an Amazon S3-based data lake, or in a data warehousing system such as Amazon Redshift.AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a versatile tool that can be used to migrate an existing database system to a new...