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title: "eBook - AWS Data Lakes: A Comprehensive Guide"
description: This eBook explores why we need data lakes today, the five primary elements of a data lake, the challenges of building a data lake, and three real-world data lakes case studies.
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# AWS Data Lakes: A Comprehensive Guide

Data lakes are scalable repositories for storing raw data from many sources in one place. And because data lakes can store unstructured data, IT teams don’t have to do as much processing work on the front end to run different types of analytics.

In *AWS Data Lakes: A Comprehensive Guide* we discuss how when implemented on the AWS cloud, data lakes can achieve their full potential. And for those considering using the technology, we describe why it’s important to understand what goes into setting up a modern data lake.

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Why we need data lakes

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The five components of a data lake

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Why building data lakes is challenging

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Three real-world data lakes customer case studies