You're reading from Data Engineering with AWS Acquire the skills to design and build AWS-based data transformation pipelines like a pro

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804614426

Length 636 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Data Engineering

Author (1):

Gareth Eagar

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: AWS Data Engineering Concepts and Trends

2. An Introduction to Data Engineering FREE CHAPTER

3. Data Management Architectures for Analytics

4. The AWS Data Engineer’s Toolkit

5. Data Governance, Security, and Cataloging

6. Section 2: Architecting and Implementing Data Engineering Pipelines and Transformations

7. Architecting Data Engineering Pipelines

8. Ingesting Batch and Streaming Data

9. Transforming Data to Optimize for Analytics

10. Identifying and Enabling Data Consumers

11. A Deeper Dive into Data Marts and Amazon Redshift

12. Orchestrating the Data Pipeline

13. Section 3: The Bigger Picture: Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Machine Learning

14. Ad Hoc Queries with Amazon Athena

15. Visualizing Data with Amazon QuickSight

16. Enabling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

17. Section 4: Modern Strategies: Open Table Formats, Data Mesh, DataOps, and Preparing for the Real World

18. Building Transactional Data Lakes

19. Implementing a Data Mesh Strategy

20. Building a Modern Data Platform on AWS

21. Wrapping Up the First Part of Your Learning Journey

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

23. Index

Hands-on – switching workgroups and running queries

By default, all users operate in the primary workgroup, but users can switch between any workgroup that they have access to. You can control workgroup access via IAM policies, as detailed in the AWS documentation titled IAM Policies for Accessing Workgroups : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/workgroups-iam-policy.html

In the previous section, we created and configured a new workgroup, so we can now run some SQL queries and explore Athena’s functionality further:

In the left-hand menu, click on Query editor. Once in the Query editor, use the Workgroup drop-down list selector to change to your newly created sandbox workgroup.

Figure 11.4: Switching Workgroups in the Athena Console

A pop-up dialog may appear for you to acknowledge that all the queries that are run in this workgroup will use the settings we configured previously. This is because we chose to Overwrite client...