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Modern Data Architecture on AWS

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813396
Pages 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Behram Irani Behram Irani
Profile icon Behram Irani
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1: Foundational Data Lake
2. Prologue: The Data and Analytics Journey So Far 3. Chapter 1: Modern Data Architecture on AWS 4. Chapter 2: Scalable Data Lakes 5. Part 2: Purpose-Built Services And Unified Data Access
6. Chapter 3: Batch Data Ingestion 7. Chapter 4: Streaming Data Ingestion 8. Chapter 5: Data Processing 9. Chapter 6: Interactive Analytics 10. Chapter 7: Data Warehousing 11. Chapter 8: Data Sharing 12. Chapter 9: Data Federation 13. Chapter 10: Predictive Analytics 14. Chapter 11: Generative AI 15. Chapter 12: Operational Analytics 16. Chapter 13: Business Intelligence 17. Part 3: Govern, Scale, Optimize And Operationalize
18. Chapter 14: Data Governance 19. Chapter 15: Data Mesh 20. Chapter 16: Performant and Cost-Effective Data Platform 21. Chapter 17: Automate, Operationalize, and Monetize 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we went through why so many organizations prefer to build their data lakes on Amazon S3. We then went through different layers of data lakes in S3 and the purpose of each of them. Along with the layers of data, we also looked at how Glue Data Catalog helps to capture the metadata about the data in the form of tables. We also touched upon a new trend around having to build a transactional data lake, which involves selecting a table format that aligns closely with the specific use case being solved. Finally, we put it all together to solve a specific use case and saw it all come together, at least from the data storage and catalog side of things.

We have the data in S3 and we have the catalog of this data in Glue Data Catalog in the form of tables. The real value of this setup is that businesses can easily consume this data to derive insights from it. This leads us to the next section of this book around different purpose-built services and how each of them...

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