Section 1: AWS Data Engineering Concepts and Trends

To start with, we examine why data is so important to organizations today, and introduce foundational concepts of data engineering, including coverage of governance and security topics. We also learn about the AWS services that form part of the data engineer’s toolkit, and get hands-on with creating an AWS account and using services such as Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, An Introduction to Data Engineering
• Chapter 2, Data Management Architectures for Analytics
• Chapter 3, The AWS Data Engineer’s Toolkit
• Chapter 4, Data Cataloging, Security, and Governance