Databricks on AWS

Your Unified Data Analytics Platform on AWS

Use Databricks as unified data analytics platform on Amazon Web Services with areto’s expertise and best practices. We help you make Databricks on AWS the centre of your data science experience and data engineering workflows.

Challenges

Getting up to Speed with Databricks on AWS

With data growing at unprecedented rates and the necessity to integrate a large variety of source systems from traditional databases to real-time sensor data, modern businesses require a powerful analytics platform to handle all their data, analytics, and AI use cases in one place. Many of our customers choose Databricks on AWS as their collaborative workspace for data science, machine learning, and analytics. However, a best practice Databricks deployment on AWS requires detailed knowledge of both platforms and there are many pitfalls to avoid when crafting an efficient strategy to streamline your data management to derive new insights from your data.

The areto Solution

Databricks as a Collaborative Workspace for Your Analytics Needs

Drawing from multi-year experience and collaborations with customers spanning a wide range of industries, we help you make Databricks on AWS the center of your data science experimentation and data engineering workflows. We support you during every step of your journey:

Deployment: We help you make the right choice given a multitude of configuration options, while optimizing for security, performance, usability, and cost.
User onboarding: We help empower a variety of personas – data scientists, data engineers, database analysts – to make the best use of Databricks on AWS.
Advanced use cases: Want to get everything out of Databricks on AWS? Our experts are here to help.

Benefits

We offer a fast Databricks deployment that follows best practices and tightly integrates with your AWS resources.

Seamless Deployment Experience

Highly available networking, security, encryption, least-privilege access, and cost-efficient data transfer over the AWS network – out of the box.

Databricks Administration

We support with cluster configuration and right-sizing as well as least-privilege access to clusters, notebooks, and workflows.

Intuitive User Management

We use AWS IAM Identity Center to provide MFA-backed single-sign-on (SSO) access to your Databricks workspaces.

Use Case Support

We help your data teams deliver fast – true collaborative development paired with CI/CD and workflow automation.

Best-Practice Databricks Deployment Using Infrastructure as Code

We build Databricks workspaces in minutes with AWS infrastructure components you know and trust.

These include a secure and highly available network architecture (VPC), CloudWatch integration, KMS for notebook encryption, VPC endpoints, S3 for storing Databricks artifacts, and clusters composed of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. All necessary steps are performed using infrastructure as code – making the deployment repeatable, customizable, and version controllable.

Expert Consulting for Your Databricks Use Cases

We are there to support you on the next steps of your Databricks journey – with advanced topics like:

User management and least-privilege access to Databricks resources (clusters, notebooks, workflows, …)
Best practices for fast-paced development in teams spanning multiple personas (data scientists, data engineers, database analysts)
CI/CD and workflow automation via Git integration using Terraform and Databricks Repos

Case Study

DFB

(German Football Association)

Challenges

Football has become immensely data-driven (video, positional, match event data). Data scientists and analysts work in a highly research-driven environment where results need to be delivered quickly. Both factors necessitate a powerful data analytics platform.

Solution

Empowering data scientists, data engineers, and analysts alike, Databricks on AWS has become the central hub for exchanging new ideas that will help shape the future of football.

Results

Databricks on AWS now hosts both DFB’s data science experimentation and production-level pipelines, with substantial improvements in data accessibility, time-to-insight, and reliability of data transformation workflows.

areto on AWS

Being an AWS Select Partner and a Databricks Consulting Partner, we use our extensive experience with AWS and Databricks to provide your company with a data platform that fosters productive collaboration and enables your data teams to deliver results at unprecedented levels of speed. During the last years, Databricks have closely integrated their services with the AWS ecosystem, making AWS the cloud provider of choice to host Databricks as a unified data analytics platform for data engineering, machine learning, and collaborative data science.

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