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AWS Data Services Flashcards

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S3

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  • Simple Storage Service
  • Large amounts of data storage that we want to actively access
  • Structured or unstructured data
  • Can be used as a data lake:
    • Collection of S3 buckets
    • Structured (csv, json)
    • Unstructured (text files, images)
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Advantages and disadvantages of data lakes

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Adv: many sources, defined schema, lower cost that data warehouse solutions, tolerant of low-quality data
Disadv: unsuitable for transactional systems, needs cataloguing before analysis

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Simple ML workflow

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  1. Kinesis data firehose ingests data into S3
  2. Glue “crawls” through the S3 bucket to make a catalogue of the data for Athena
  3. Athena queries S3 via use of catalogue
  4. Athena provides data to SageMaker for ML
    * for large data set we could have used EMR/Spark instead or with Athena
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Security in S3

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  • IAM User and Roles which have policies attached which govern how these users use S3
  • Bucket policy (resource-level policies)
    Encryption:
  • S3 SSE: server side encryption (good for enterprise who require this tick).
  • S3 KMS: create our own keys within the AWS console, or import our own keys
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AWS Glue

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  • Cataloguing and structuring the bucket
  • Stores, annotates and shares metadata
  • Creates catalogues of data (schemas)
  • “Crawler” which goes through the S3 bucket and makes the catalogue to store in Glue Data Catalogue
  • Also crawls Dynamo DB etc
  • Produces a single view/endpoint of the data
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Glue ETL capability

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  • Extract data out of somewhere, perform an operation, then reload in another location
  • We can “glue” together different data sources and perform some transformations
  • Can interact with a variety of data sources inside and outside of AWS
  • Using the metadata in Data Catalogue, Glue can autogenerate Scala or PySpark scripts with Glue extensions that can be used and modified for ETL operations
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Glue jobs system

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  • Provides managed infrastructure to orchestrate ETL workflows.
  • Can be created to automate ETL scripts and transfer data to different locations
  • Jobs can be scheduled and chained, or triggered by events such as the arrival of new data
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Glue FindMatches

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  • Enables you to identify duplicate or matching records in your data set, even when the records do not have a common unique identifier and no fields match exactly. This will not require writing any code or knowing how ML works
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Database Migration Service (DMS)

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  • Used to migrate relational databases, data warehouses, NoSQL databases and other types of data stores
  • You can migrate data to S3 using DMS from any of the supported database sources
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Athena

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  • Query S3 with SQL
  • Source data from multiple S3 locations
  • Save outputs to S3
  • Use for data pre-processing ahead of ML
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Quicksight

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  • AWS BI tool
  • Visualise data from many sources: dashboards, email reports, embedded reports
  • End-user application
  • Not inside the AWS console, but can be accessed from the console
  • Drag-and-drop application in the browser - can plug into many different data sources such as Dynamo, S3, Github, other SQL DBs etc
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Kinesis

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  • Large-scale data ingestion

- E.g. lots of video data from few sources, or small amounts of data from many sources (IoT)

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Kinesis video streams

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  • Securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics, ML, playback and other processing
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Kinesis data streams

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  • General endpoint for ingesting large amounts of data for processing by:
    • Kinesis data analysis
    • Spark or EMR
    • EC2
    • Lambda
  • Can be used to collect and process large streams of data records in real time. You can create Kinesis data stream applications to process data from streams
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Kinesis Data Firehose

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  • Simple endpoint to stream data into:
    • S3
    • Redshift
    • Elasticsearch
    • Splunk (3rd party data analysis, reporting software)
  • Can also transform data before delivering
  • Is NOT designed for custom data stream processing and real-time metrics (use Kinesis Data Streams)
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Kinesis Data Analytics

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  • Process streaming data from Kinesis Streams (not a BI tool like Quicksight) or Firehose at scale using SQL or Java libraries
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Glue vs Kinesis

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  • If we have data sitting in buckets/other warehouses, then Glue may be a better option with its ETL capabilities
  • If we have lots of data streaming in fast, then Kinesis is better
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Sample architecture from IoT device

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  • Data streams from IoT device
  • Ingestion of stream is handled by Kinesis Data Stream
  • EMR/Spark handles processing
  • Passed onto S3 for storage
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Sample architecture from video camera

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  • Video camera data records and streams data through Kinesis Video Streams to Rekognition Video
  • Rekognition makes predictions such as what it identifies, face recognition,
  • These predictions flow through to Kinesis Data Streams
  • Lambda function takes predictions and triggers AWS SNS to send a message to a mobile device to notify user of a particular security alert in the footage
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EMR

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Elastic Map Reduce

  • Managed service for hosting massively parallel compute tasks (e.g. Google search)
  • Works well in the cloud
  • Integrates with S3
  • Petabyte scale processing
  • Uses big data tools: Spark, Hadoop, HBase
  • Task nodes are used to reduce compute costs by processing data but not holding persistent data in HDFS. Terminating a task node does not result in data loss or cause the application to terminate
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Apache Spark

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  • Fast analytics engine
  • Massive parallel compute
  • Deployed over clusters of resources
  • The aws-sagemaker-spark-sdk is installed when using EMR. This installs SageMaker Spark and associated dependencies
  • You can use SageMaker Spark to construct Spark machine learning pipelines using SageMaker stages
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EC2 for Machine Learning

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  • Compute instances sitting behind the model
  • Instance types targeted at ML tasks include ‘Compute Optimised’ and Accelerated Computing (GPU)
  • AWS have certain types of AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) which are aimed at ML, such as:
    • conda-based deep learning AMIs for TF/keras, MXNet/gluon, pytorch etc; GPU acceleration
    • Deep learning based AMIs (i.e. low-level, customised ML)
  • Limits: with a new AWS account you won’t be able to automatically spin up large ML models unless you request and increase to the compute limit (this can take a few days)

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