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Modern Data Architecture on AWS

You're reading from  Modern Data Architecture on AWS

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813396
Pages 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Behram Irani Behram Irani
Profile icon Behram Irani

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Foundational Data Lake
2. Prologue: The Data and Analytics Journey So Far 3. Chapter 1: Modern Data Architecture on AWS 4. Chapter 2: Scalable Data Lakes 5. Part 2: Purpose-Built Services And Unified Data Access
6. Chapter 3: Batch Data Ingestion 7. Chapter 4: Streaming Data Ingestion 8. Chapter 5: Data Processing 9. Chapter 6: Interactive Analytics 10. Chapter 7: Data Warehousing 11. Chapter 8: Data Sharing 12. Chapter 9: Data Federation 13. Chapter 10: Predictive Analytics 14. Chapter 11: Generative AI 15. Chapter 12: Operational Analytics 16. Chapter 13: Business Intelligence 17. Part 3: Govern, Scale, Optimize And Operationalize
18. Chapter 14: Data Governance 19. Chapter 15: Data Mesh 20. Chapter 16: Performant and Cost-Effective Data Platform 21. Chapter 17: Automate, Operationalize, and Monetize 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Data processing using Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR is a platform that enables big data processing at a scale. It’s a managed service that contains over 20 open source frameworks, including popular data processing engines such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Presto, and Trino. It was specifically created keeping in mind all the challenges we went through with a data processing platform.

There is so much information about EMR that a separate book exists that describes in detail each and every aspect of EMR. However, the purpose of this book is not to explain all of these aspects in detail but to understand when EMR can be used and which use cases it helps to solve. But let’s first get an overview of EMR.

Amazon EMR overview

EMR provides all the necessary tools that are required to process data at scale. EMR manages the underlying software and hardware needed to provide a cost-effective, scalable, and easy-to-manage data platform. The best way to get an overview of a service is...

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