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Understand a data lake pattern with AWS Lake Formation

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Understand a data lake pattern with AWS Lake Formation

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- [Instructor] In this section we'll take a look at building a data lake. So what is this? It's a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in the original form, and data that's been prepared for analysis. Your data lake will enable you to break down data silos and to combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions. Amazon has a number of services that they suggest combining to build a data lake. And this, as with other aspects of their data services is a quickly evolving ecosystem. At the time of this recording there are several different patterns that they recommend, the first of which is using cloud formation templates to build a data lake using key and core services as shown here. You'll notice that data is stored importantly in S3 as the core repository and a number of other services both services that have been around for a long time such…

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