August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
476 pages
12h 52m
English
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Chapter 10. What’s New in AWS for Data Engineers
Chapters 1 to 9 provided details on established AWS services and concepts that have been widely available since late 2024. AWS has since introduced several new features, with some currently in the preview phase and others having recently achieved general availability status.
This chapter aims to provide a high-level overview of some of these new features, which will help you get familiar with the new capabilities and answer questions related to these features should they appear in the certification exam.
The following are the new announcements that change how developers integrate AWS data analytics services:
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
Amazon SageMaker Catalog
Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
Improving the developer experience with generative AI
Amazon S3 Tables and S3 Metadata
Let’s get an overview of each of these capabilities.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
As explained in previous chapters, Amazon Web Services offer a wide range of data analytics services (e.g., Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and more) that customers can integrate to build an end-to-end data pipeline. These services help address analytical needs, but they require effort to assemble or require in-depth knowledge to integrate with each other through their respective service interfaces. To address the ease-of-use concern, during re:Invent 2024, AWS announced Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio provides an integrated ...
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