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Secure a big data pipeline

Secure a big data pipeline - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Secure a big data pipeline

- It's really interesting to see how as application architecture's are moving towards Serverless, how that's impacting Big Data Pipeline security considerations. In this example, I'm showing a Big Data Pipeline where the compute is handled by Lambda. And frankly, this is something that I'm personally working on more and more in the real world, because of the cost economies for services and also, as I said, for the security considerations. And the ease of management basically, of Lambda. So an interesting aspect of working with Lambda, is in addition to Lambda being available in the wild shall we say, Amazon, after they introduced Lambda based on customer requests, added the ability to place Lambdas in a VPC. Which might seem a little bit strange, after I've been talking about all the benefits of Serverless services not having to be in a VPC and being secured by IAM Roles. However, this type of blended architecture is something that basically is still a reality. Because, some of the…

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