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Sakti Mishra
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Sakti Mishra

Sakti Mishra is an engineer, architect, author, and technology leader with over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently working as a senior data lab architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is passionate about technologies and has expertise in big data, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, graph networks, web/mobile applications, and cloud technologies such as AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Sakti has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in business administration. He holds several certifications in Hadoop, Spark, AWS, and Google Cloud. He is also an author of multiple technology blogs, workshops, white papers and is a public speaker who represents AWS in various domains and events.
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Migrating data and metadata catalogs

As we learned earlier, using Amazon S3 as the persistent data store is the recommended approach when migrating your workloads to AWS or Amazon EMR. If your on-premise environment does not use Amazon S3 as the persistent data store or your existing cluster has Hive Metastore tables, then you need to plan for migrating both data and metadata.

Let's understand what options we have when planning to migrate on-premises cluster data and/or metadata catalogs.

Migrating data

To migrate your on-premises datasets to Amazon S3 or other storage solutions in AWS, you can consider the following tools and services AWS offers:

  • Offline data movement using AWS Snowball and Snowmobile, which helps to migrate petabyte- and exabyte-scale datasets.
  • For faster online data movement, integrate AWS Direct Connect, which provides dedicated internet bandwidth for data transfers.
  • Use Hadoop's distcp command to do a distributed copy from on...
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Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801071079

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Sakti Mishra

Sakti Mishra is an engineer, architect, author, and technology leader with over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently working as a senior data lab architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is passionate about technologies and has expertise in big data, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, graph networks, web/mobile applications, and cloud technologies such as AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Sakti has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in business administration. He holds several certifications in Hadoop, Spark, AWS, and Google Cloud. He is also an author of multiple technology blogs, workshops, white papers and is a public speaker who represents AWS in various domains and events.
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