From the course: Amazon Web Services: Data Services

Why use AWS data storage services? - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: Amazon Web Services: Data Services

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Why use AWS data storage services?

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- [Instructor] Now you might be wondering why I decided to create a course just around AWS data services. There's so much more to the AWS ecosystem. Well there are a couple of reasons. I find that data service options on a particular vendor cloud often drive not only the choice of those services, but actually the choice of the vendor. This is a very very active development area for the various vendors, Amazon, Google, Azure, and other vendors as well, and I find that as I'm building solutions with my customers, the data services that are available are really critically important in the selection of the cloud itself. So, I really wanted to take the knowledge that I'd gained from real world implementations and share that with you. Another aspect of this is that data today is partitioned not within a set of databases on a server, rather between data services on a cloud and this might not make any sense to you at this point in the course, but we're going to talk about this and see examples of architectures where data is split amongst, for example, noSQL databases and relational databases and other types of data storage systems on the Amazon Cloud because it makes the most sense given the product line available. So this is definitely a new direction that I'm seeing more and more in my work as an architect and I want to show you how I've implemented these types of solutions on the Amazon Cloud using their data service offerings. The other thing about the Amazon data service offerings is the strength of the partner ecosystem. It's critically important that what is built is usable by the team you have in house. So again, I'm going to draw from my real world experience and highlight third party partners, partners who provide services around key aspects of the USO data, such as importing data, cleaning data, processing data, visualizing data, being able to process complex queries including machine learning. The partner ecosystem that exists around the AWS services, in general, but the data services in particular, is unmatched and it's important that you consider that when you're looking at building solutions on the Amazon Cloud.

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