CHAPTER 7Cataloging, Governance, and Search

In this chapter, you'll learn how to discover data, regulate access, and query it. You'll learn about the vital role a data catalog plays in the construction of a data platform and how to catalog your datasets for the purpose of specifying schemas. We'll discuss tagging and granting access to data as well as performing queries that allow you to build datasets for your data consumers and clients, including business intelligence (BI) tools. We'll be working with AWS Glue and Amazon Athena in this chapter.

Cataloging with AWS Glue

Cataloging data is a vital process for the automated data platform. Without it, ingestion, processing, and analytics are entirely useless, as your data is not made available ...

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