Data and Analytics

Over the last few decades, companies have been gathering huge amounts of data, and it has become increasingly challenging to get useful information from them. They need powerful tools to manage and analyze it effectively. AWS offers a wide range of solutions to help with these tasks. From AWS Glue for data integration and transformation, via Amazon Kinesis for real-time data streaming, to Amazon Aurora for storing transactional data, AWS offers tools or solutions to meet each use case. This chapter will explore the various AWS data and analytics services, teaching you how to evaluate the choices available.

Data and analytics on AWS cover a very wide range of services. At the time of writing, AWS offers 15 different databases and over 20 different analytics and data tools and pipelines. For the SAA-C03 exam, you will need to know the main differences between these tools and when to use each one, based on use cases. For some of the most commonly used services, you...