AWS for Solutions Architects - Third Edition

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Data Engineering and Big Data Analytics in AWS

Traditionally, a business’s most important resources are its human and financial capital. However, in the last few decades, more businesses have realized that another resource may be just as vital, if not more so: their data capital.

Data has taken a special place at the center of some of today’s most successful enterprises. For this reason, business leaders have concluded that to survive in today’s business climate, they must collect, process, transform, distill, and safeguard their data like their other traditional business capital.

Reducing cloud storage costs made it more feasible for businesses to store more data. Additionally, with pay-as-you-go and on-demand storage and compute options, ...