AWS Data Analytics and Ingestion Services— (SAA-CO3 Summary 2024)

AWS Data Analytics and Ingestion Services

Data Analytics and Ingestion

• Processing challenges arise in big data scenarios due to the volume, rate of ingestion, and the compute power required for analysis.
• Balancing short and long-term data retention becomes crucial.
• Therefore, we have services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, and AWS Lake Formation Service to address these challenges

Amazon Athena

• Big data ANSI SQL querying service designed for data stored in Amazon S3.
• Managed service that accommodates structured, semi-structured, or structureless data.
• Executes queries in parallel across nodes, ensuring optimal speed in obtaining query results.

Amazon QuickSight

• Business Intelligence (BI) solution facilitating data visualizations and dashboards.
• Useful for forecasting trends and conducting what-if scenarios.
• Supports natural language queries against data from various sources.

Amazon Kinesis

• Analyzes and processes streaming data in real-time.
• Managed service with automatic scaling capabilities.