Modern Data Architecture on AWS: A Practical Guide for Building Next-Gen Data Platforms on AWS

by Behram Irani

Discover all the essential design and architectural patterns in one place to help you rapidly build and deploy your modern data platform using AWS services Many IT leaders and professionals are adept at extracting data from a particular type of database and deriving value from it. However, designing and implementing an enterprise-wide holistic data platform with purpose-built data services, all seamlessly working in tandem with the least amount of manual intervention, still poses a challenge. This book will help you explore end-to-end solutions to common data, analytics, and AI/ML use cases by leveraging AWS services. The chapters systematically take you through all the building blocks of a modern data platform, including data lakes, data warehouses, data ingestion patterns, data consumption patterns, data governance, and AI/ML patterns. Using real-world use cases, each chapter highlights the features and functionalities of numerous AWS services to enable you to create a scalable, flexible, performant, and cost-effective modern data platform. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with all the necessary architectural patterns and be able to apply this knowledge to efficiently build a modern data platform for your organization using AWS services. This book is for data architects, data engineers, and professionals involved in building data platforms. The use case–driven approach taken in this book will help you conceptualize possible solutions to specific use cases, while also providing you with design patterns to build data platforms for any organization. Technical leaders and decision makers will also benefit from this book by gaining a perspective of what the overall data architecture looks like for their organization and how each component of the platform helps with their business needs.

420 pages, Paperback

Published August 31, 2023

Reviews

[Bob Woodley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good survey of this topic with just the right level of detail. It will be out of date in a year, but I found it a useful primer.