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Data Mesh

In this chapter, we will look at the following key topics:

  • Data mesh concepts
  • Data mesh on AWS
  • Data mesh on an Amazon S3-based data lake
  • Data mesh on Amazon Redshift

Data mesh concepts

If you recall from Chapter 8, Data Sharing, we kept the important topic of a distributed data lake that spans multiple AWS accounts open-ended. Now is a good time to complete that story. Even today, the vast majority of use cases that require a data lake can be solved by building a centralized data lake. However, as organizations become bigger, new lines of businesses (LOBs) that work as autonomous units become a reality. All these LOBs add more data sources to grow their business units, resulting in the exponential growth of data at the enterprise ...

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