Building a Modern Data Platform on AWS

As we near the end of this book, we will review high-level concepts around building a modern data platform on AWS. We could easily devote another whole book to this topic alone, but in this chapter, we will provide at least an overview to give you a strong foundation on how to approach the build-out of a modern data platform.

There are many different pieces to the puzzle of building a modern data platform, and this chapter will build on many of the other topics we have covered in this book (such as data meshes and modern table formats) alongside introducing topics we have not yet covered (such as Agile development and CI/CD pipelines).

The goal of this chapter is to help you think through how to bring together many of the different concepts you have learned in this book to create a data platform that supports both the data producers and data consumers in your organization. This chapter is not a complete guide to building a data platform...