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

Building a Modern Data Platform on AWS

As we near the end of this book, we will review high-level concepts around building a modern data platform on AWS. We could easily devote another whole book to this topic alone, but in this chapter, we will provide at least an overview to give you a strong foundation on how to approach the build-out of a modern data platform.

There are many different pieces to the puzzle of building a modern data platform, and this chapter will build on many of the other topics we have covered in this book (such as data meshes and modern table formats) alongside introducing topics we have not yet covered (such as Agile development and CI/CD pipelines).

The goal of this chapter is to help you think through how to bring together many of the different concepts you have learned in this book to create a data platform that supports both the data producers and data consumers in your organization. This chapter is not a complete guide to building a data platform...