Chapter 1 - An Introduction to Data Engineering

In this chapter we reviewed how data is becoming an increasingly important asset for organizations, and looked at some of the core challenges of working with big data. We then reviewed some of the data related roles that are commonly seen in organizations today.

Links

AWS Data Lake Defition: https://aws.amazon.com/big-data/datalakes-and-analytics/what-is-a-data-lake/

Hands-on Activity

In this hands-on activity section of this chapter you were given step-by-step instructions to guide you in creating a new AWS account. There was no coding or policies configured in this chapter.

Links

Creating a billing alarm to monitor your estimated AWS charges: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.html
Google Voice for creating a virtual phone number for use with your account: https://voice.google.com/
What to do if you don’t receive a confirmation email within 24 hours: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/
Best practices for securing your account - root user: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_root-user.html
Best practices for securing your account - Multi Factor Authentication (MFA): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_mfa_enable_virtual.html