AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Study Guide

Chapter 2. Data Store Management

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This chapter aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage your data efficiently and effectively. Whether you’re dealing with structured, unstructured, or semi-structured data, selecting the right data store can significantly impact your organization’s ability to store, retrieve, and analyze data.

In this chapter, we will dive deep into the following topics:

• How to choose the right data store based on your use case

• How to classify your data and build a data catalog for data discovery

• How to manage the lifecycle of data

• How to design data models and manage schema evolution

By the end of this chapter, you will have a solid understanding in data store management, supported by practice questions to reinforce your learning and prepare you for the certification exam and real-world scenarios.

Let’s dive deep into the specific topics.

Choose a data store

We will begin by exploring how to choose the right data store based on your specific ...