AWS Data Lake architecture

Let's look at the data lake architecture with AWS Data Lake solution. The overall services provided by a data lake can be grouped into the following four categories:

  • Managed ingestion to onboard data from various sources and any format
  • Centralized storage that can scale as per the business needs
  • Processing and analyzing at big data scale in various programming languages
  • Governing and securing your data packages

The next diagram shows the overall architecture that will form a data lake in AWS. Let's review each feature category in detail:

AWS Data Lake architecture

Figure 7.1: AWS data lake architecture

Managed data ingestion to AWS Data Lake

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