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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

Why choose Amazon S3 as a data lake store?

Before we dive deep into the actual data and analytics use cases and explore how to design data lakes on AWS, it is first important to understand why Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is the preferred choice for building a data lake and why it is used as a storage layer to store all kinds of data in a centralized location.

If you recall from the discussions we had in Chapter 1, an ideal storage for building a data lake should inherently be scalable, durable, highly performant, easy to use, secure, cost-effective, and integrated with other building blocks of the data lake ecosystem. So, we ask a very important question: why choose Amazon S3 as a data lake store?

S3 checks all the boxes on what we look for in a store for building data lakes. Here are some of the features of S3:

  • Scalable: S3 is a petabyte-scale object store with virtually unlimited storage
  • Durable: S3 is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9s) of data durability...
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