Understand your customers better with a modern data strategy (TNC208)

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Introduction

  • The presenter is Marco Tamassia, an AWS principal technical instructor based in Milan, Italy.
  • This is an intermediate-level session (200-level) on data analytics on AWS.
  • The session is organized by the AWS Training and Certification team.

Understanding Customers' Needs

  • The key goal of data analytics is to understand the customers and provide value to the business.
  • Examples include clickstream analysis, retail data analysis, and making predictions about customer behavior.

The Modern Data Strategy on AWS

  • AWS defines a conceptual model called the "Lake House" for a modern data analytics architecture.
  • This architecture is decoupled, scalable, and highly available, allowing for easy evolution.
  • The services in this architecture are predominantly serverless, reducing the overhead of managing the underlying infrastructure.
  • The services are also well-integrated, enabling seamless data movement and querying without data movement.

The Data Lake

  • The data lake is the central component of the Lake House architecture, storing heterogeneous data (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured).
  • Key components of the data lake include:
    • Amazon S3 for storage
    • AWS Glue Data Catalog for metadata management
    • AWS Athena for serverless SQL querying of the data lake

Databases on AWS

  • AWS offers a variety of database services to support different data models, including relational, key-value, document-oriented, and graph databases.
  • Amazon RDS provides a fully managed relational database service, while Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless key-value database.
  • These database services are well-integrated with the data lake and other AWS services.

The Data Warehouse

  • The data warehouse is now more of an analysis tool than a storage tool, with the data lake handling the bulk of the historical data.
  • Amazon Redshift is AWS's purpose-built data warehouse service, optimized for analytical workloads.
  • Redshift provides features like Redshift Spectrum (querying data in the data lake), Redshift ML (integrated machine learning), and federated queries to other data sources.

Big Data Frameworks and Search

  • AWS provides fully managed and serverless versions of popular big data frameworks like Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop, through Amazon EMR.
  • For search, Amazon OpenSearch Service (formerly Amazon Elasticsearch Service) offers a fully managed search and analytics solution.

Machine Learning

  • AWS offers various machine learning services, ranging from fully managed APIs (like Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Comprehend) to the more customizable Amazon SageMaker platform.
  • SageMaker allows you to build end-to-end machine learning pipelines, from data preparation to model deployment.

Conclusion

  • The "Lake House" is AWS's modern data analytics architecture, consisting of a combination of tightly integrated, serverless services.
  • This architecture enables seamless data movement, querying without data movement, and easy evolution of the analytics stack.
  • AWS offers a wide range of training and certification opportunities to help customers build data analytics solutions on AWS.

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