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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.