Determine High-Performing Data Ingestion And Transformation Solutions

Exam Guide: Solutions Architect - Associate ⚡ Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures 📘 Task Statement 3.5 🎯 Determining High-Performing Data Ingestion And Transformation Solutions is about getting data into AWS, transforming it into useful formats, and enabling analytics at the required speed, scale, and security level . First decide batch vs streaming ingestion, then pick the right transfer/ingestion service , then pick the transformation engine , then enable query + visualization . Knowledge 1 | Data Analytics And Visualization Services Athena, Lake Formation, QuickSight 1.1 Amazon Athena Serverless SQL queries directly on S3 data (commonly Parquet/ORC for performance). Great for ad-hoc querying and quick analytics Works best with a catalog like Glue Data Catalog 1.2 AWS Lake Formation Build and govern a data lake on S3: Central permissions model (tables, columns) Helps manage who can access which datasets 1.3 Amazon QuickSight Serverless BI dashboards and visualization: Conn