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

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Data Engineering

Author (1):

Gareth Eagar

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

Section 1: AWS Data Engineering Concepts and Trends

An Introduction to Data Engineering

Data Management Architectures for Analytics

The AWS Data Engineer’s Toolkit

Data Governance, Security, and Cataloging

Section 2: Architecting and Implementing Data Engineering Pipelines and Transformations

Architecting Data Engineering Pipelines

Ingesting Batch and Streaming Data

Transforming Data to Optimize for Analytics

Identifying and Enabling Data Consumers

A Deeper Dive into Data Marts and Amazon Redshift

Orchestrating the Data Pipeline

Section 3: The Bigger Picture: Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Machine Learning

Ad Hoc Queries with Amazon Athena

Visualizing Data with Amazon QuickSight

Enabling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Section 4: Modern Strategies: Open Table Formats, Data Mesh, DataOps, and Preparing for the Real World

Building Transactional Data Lakes

Implementing a Data Mesh Strategy

Building a Modern Data Platform on AWS

Wrapping Up the First Part of Your Learning Journey

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Index

Technical requirements

In the hands-on sections of this chapter, you will perform administrative tasks related to Amazon Athena (such as creating a new Athena workgroup) and run Athena queries. As mentioned at the start of this book, we strongly recommend that, for the exercises in this book, you use a sandbox account where you have full administrative permissions.

For this chapter, at a minimum, you will need permissions to manage Athena workgroups, permissions to run Athena queries, access to the AWS Glue Data Catalog for databases and tables to be queried, and read access to the relevant underlying S3 storage.

A user that has the AmazonAthenaFullAccess and AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess policies attached should have sufficient permissions for the exercises in this chapter. However, note that a user with these roles will have access to all S3 objects in the account, all Glue resources, all Athena permissions, as well as various other permissions, so this should only be granted to...