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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide

You're reading from   AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide Design, build, and manage your infrastructure on Amazon Web Services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478793
Length 358 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Yohan Wadia Yohan Wadia
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Preface 1. What's New in AWS? 2. Managing EC2 with Systems Manager FREE CHAPTER 3. Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System 4. Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF 5. Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config 6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations 7. Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite 8. Messaging in the Cloud Using Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS 9. Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift 10. Orchestrating Data using AWS Data Pipeline 11. Connecting the World with AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the AWS analytics suite of services


With the growth of big data and its adoption across organizations on the rise, many cloud providers today provide a plethora of services that are specifically designed to run massive computations and analytics on large volumes of data. AWS is one such cloud provider that also has invested a lot into the big data and analytics paradigm with a host of services offering ready-to-use frameworks, business insights and data warehousing solutions, as well. Here is a brief explanation of the AWS analytics suite of services:

  • Amazon EMR: Amazon Elastic MapReduce or EMR is a quick and easy to use service that provides users with a scalable, managed Hadoop ecosystem and framework. You can leverage EMR to process vast amounts of data without having to worry about configuring the underlying Hadoop platform. We will be learning and exploring more on EMR in the subsequent sections of this chapter.
  • Amazon Athena: Amazon Athena takes big data processing up a...
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