AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A data lake is a centralized repository that you can use to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. You can store your data as-is, without having to first structure the data and then run different types of analytics for better business insights. They are the same.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It has a drag and drop visual interface and can connect to databases, enterprise data warehouses, data lakes, cloud storage, business applications and social media. The platform also supports push-down processing for data prep and ETL inside databases to minimize data movement and optimize performance.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 22, 2021

Organizations are dealing with exponentially increasing data that ranges broadly from customer-generated information, financial transactions, edge-generated data and even operational IT server logs. A combination of complex data lake and data warehouse capabilities are required to leverage this data.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initially, data warehouses were the go-to solution for structured data and analytical workloads but were limited by proprietary storage formats and their inability to handle unstructured data. Eventually, transactional data lakes emerged to add transactional consistency and performance of a data warehouse to the data lake.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Amazon Redshift also supports querying nested data with complex data types such as struct, array, and map.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 9, 2023

A modern data architecture enables companies to ingest virtually any type of data through automated pipelines into a data lake, which provides highly durable and cost-effective object storage at petabyte or exabyte scale.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This led to inefficiencies in data governance and access control. AWS Lake Formation is a service that streamlines and centralizes the data lake creation and management process. The Solution: How BMW CDH solved data duplication The CDH is a company-wide data lake built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

Since the deluge of big data over a decade ago, many organizations have learned to build applications to process and analyze petabytes of data. Data lakes have served as a central repository to store structured and unstructured data at any scale and in various formats.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

This amalgamation empowers vendors with authority over a diverse range of workloads by virtue of owning the data. This authority extends across realms such as business intelligence, data engineering, and machine learning thus limiting the tools and capabilities that can be used. 5 seconds $0.08 8 seconds $0.07

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2025

Unified access to your data is provided by Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse , a unified, open, and secure data lakehouse built on Apache Iceberg open standards. The final model provides sales teams with the highest-value opportunities, which they can visualize in a business intelligence dashboard and take action on immediately.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Data lake is a newer IT term created for a new category of data store. But just what is a data lake? According to IBM, “a data lake is a storage repository that holds an enormous amount of raw or refined data in native format until it is accessed.” That makes sense. I think the […].

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Our research shows that external data sources are also a routine part of data preparation processes, with 80% of organizations incorporating one or more external data sources. And a similar proportion of participants in our research (84%) include external data in their data lakes.

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Boris Evelson

JUNE 14, 2023

Enterprise business intelligence (BI) continues to be the last mile to insights-driven business (IDB) capabilities. No matter what technology foundation you’re using – a data lake, a data warehouse, data fabric, data mesh, etc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

La firma de consultoría también deberá crear un data lake que permita almacenar y compartir fácilmente los datos de todo el ecosistema deportivo español, para lograr sinergias en torno a los distintos proyectos que se realicen.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 27, 2023

Amazon Athena supports the MERGE command on Apache Iceberg tables, which allows you to perform inserts, updates, and deletes in your data lake at scale using familiar SQL statements that are compliant with ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable).

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 23, 2023

Events and many other security data types are stored in Imperva’s Threat Research Multi-Region data lake. Imperva harnesses data to improve their business outcomes. As part of their solution, they are using Amazon QuickSight to unlock insights from their data.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 3, 2021

First-generation – expensive, proprietary enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. Second-generation – gigantic, complex data lake maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 3, 2023

Data analytics on operational data at near-real time is becoming a common need. Due to the exponential growth of data volume, it has become common practice to replace read replicas with data lakes to have better scalability and performance. For more information, see Changing the default settings for your data lake.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 24, 2023

Building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides numerous benefits for an organization. However, many use cases, like performing change data capture (CDC) from an upstream relational database to an Amazon S3-based data lake, require handling data at a record level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 18, 2022

Previously, Walgreens was attempting to perform that task with its data lake but faced two significant obstacles: cost and time. Those challenges are well-known to many organizations as they have sought to obtain analytical knowledge from their vast amounts of data. Lakehouses redeem the failures of some data lakes.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I previously wrote about the importance of open table formats to the evolution of data lakes into data lakehouses. The concept of the data lake was initially proposed as a single environment where data could be combined from multiple sources to be stored and processed to enable analysis by multiple users for multiple purposes.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

APRIL 8, 2021

Over the years, the adoption of cloud computing has gained momentum with more and more organizations trying to make use of applications, data, analytics and self-service business intelligence (BI) tools running on top of cloud-computing infrastructure in order to improve efficiency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Uniteds embrace of SageMaker and Bedrock as well as Amazon Q is going to be a game changer for building data products, said Mai-LanTomsenBukovec, AWS vice president of technology, who pointed to United Data Hub as a transformational component in its AI journey at re:Invent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Giving the mobile workforce access to this data via the cloud allows them to be productive from anywhere, fosters collaboration, and improves overall strategic decision-making. Connecting mainframe data to the cloud also has financial benefits as it leads to lower mainframe CPU costs by leveraging cloud computing for data transformations.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

In this post, we show you how EUROGATE uses AWS services, including Amazon DataZone , to make data discoverable by data consumers across different business units so that they can innovate faster. We encourage you to read Amazon DataZone concepts and terminology to become familiar with the terms used in this post.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 26, 2023

AWS Glue provides an extensible architecture that enables users with different data processing use cases. A common use case is building data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using AWS Glue extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

However, they do contain effective data management, organization, and integrity capabilities. As a result, users can easily find what they need, and organizations avoid the operational and cost burdens of storing unneeded or duplicate data copies. Warehouse, data lake convergence. Meet the data lakehouse.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We pulled these people together, and defined use cases we could all agree were the best to demonstrate our new data capability. Once they were identified, we had to determine we had the right data. Then we migrated the data to our new data lake, and stood up the new platform.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. He was the CEO and co-founder of DataRow, which was acquired by Amazon in 2020.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 23, 2024

One of the most important innovations in data management is open table formats, specifically Apache Iceberg , which fundamentally transforms the way data teams manage operational metadata in the data lake.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 29, 2024

Grant access to User1 in Lake Formation Sign in to the Lake Formation console, choose Data lake permissions in the navigation pane, and grant access to the user group on the database oktank_tipblog_temp and table customer. Refer to the Lake Formation access grants steps performed for User1 and User2 if needed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The data can also help us enrich our commodity products. How are you populating your data lake? We’ve decided to take a practical approach, led by Kyle Benning, who runs our data function. That team makes sure business cases are aligned with our corporate goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Beyond breaking down silos, modern data architectures need to provide interfaces that make it easy for users to consume data using tools fit for their jobs. Data must be able to freely move to and from data warehouses, data lakes, and data marts, and interfaces must make it easy for users to consume that data.

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Juice Analytics

MAY 11, 2020

Dresner Advisory Services’ report about self-service business intelligence uncovered a surprising result. Among all the hot analytics initiatives to choose from (big data, IoT, NLP, data storytelling, cognitive BI, GDPR), plain old reporting is what is considered the most important strategic initiative. Let that sink in.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In the context of comprehensive data governance, Amazon DataZone offers organization-wide data lineage visualization using Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, while dbt provides project-level lineage through model analysis and supports cross-project integration between data lakes and warehouses.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s data-driven world , organizations are constantly seeking efficient ways to process and analyze vast amounts of information across data lakes and warehouses. This post will showcase how this data can also be queried by other data teams using Amazon Athena. Verify that you have Python version 3.7

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