You're reading from Data Engineering with AWS - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804614426

Pages 636 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Concepts

Data Engineering

Author (1):

Gareth Eagar

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: AWS Data Engineering Concepts and Trends

2. An Introduction to Data Engineering

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

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed how data is becoming ever more important for organizations looking to gain new insights and competitive advantage, and introduced some core big data processing technologies and approaches. We also looked at the key roles related to managing, processing, and analyzing large datasets, and highlighted how cloud technologies enable organizations to better deal with the increasing volume and variety of data.

In our first hands-on exercise, we provided step-by-step instructions for creating a new AWS account, which can be used through the remainder of this book as we develop our own data engineering pipeline.

In the next chapter, we dig deeper into current approaches, tools, and frameworks that are commonly used to manage and analyze large datasets, including data warehouses, data marts, data lakes, and data mesh. We also get hands-on with AWS again, but this time we will use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to create new Amazon S3 buckets.

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