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Published inAug 2023
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Behram Irani
Behram Irani
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Behram Irani

Behram Irani is currently a technology leader with Amazon Web Services (AWS) specializing in data, analytics and AI/ML. He has spent over 18 years in the tech industry helping organizations, from start-ups to large-scale enterprises, modernize their data platforms. In the last 6 years working at AWS, Behram has been a thought leader in the data, analytics and AI/ML space; publishing multiple papers and leading the digital transformation efforts for many organizations across the globe. Behram has completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune and has an MBA degree from the University of Florida.
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The need for automation

Even though we have come to the last chapter of the book, a data platform cannot be sustainable in the long run if a large number of teams manually manage all the day-to-day operations. In a mature organization, personas who help build and operate the data platform do not get access to the AWS console in production. So, the main question arises: how do they manage and operate a modern data platform? The answer is simple – each and every aspect of the data platform is managed and operated through automation scripts and pipelines.

Before we dive into what automation entails, let’s quickly highlight why automation is needed in the first place.

Automation plays a crucial role in an analytics platform on AWS for several reasons:

  • Efficiency: Automation eliminates manual, repetitive tasks, allowing analytics processes to run more efficiently. It reduces the time and effort required to perform data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and...
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Published in: Aug 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801813396

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Behram Irani

Behram Irani is currently a technology leader with Amazon Web Services (AWS) specializing in data, analytics and AI/ML. He has spent over 18 years in the tech industry helping organizations, from start-ups to large-scale enterprises, modernize their data platforms. In the last 6 years working at AWS, Behram has been a thought leader in the data, analytics and AI/ML space; publishing multiple papers and leading the digital transformation efforts for many organizations across the globe. Behram has completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune and has an MBA degree from the University of Florida.
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