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Run Apache XTable in AWS Lambda for background conversion of open table formats

AWS Big Data

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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Migrate an existing data lake to a transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

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.

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How BMW streamlined data access using AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control

AWS Big Data

To achieve this, they aimed to break down data silos and centralize data from various business units and countries into the BMW Cloud Data Hub (CDH). This led to inefficiencies in data governance and access control.

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How Cloudinary transformed their petabyte scale streaming data lake with Apache Iceberg and AWS Analytics

AWS Big Data

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.

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Bridging the gap between mainframe data and hybrid cloud environments

CIO Business Intelligence

A high hurdle many enterprises have yet to overcome is accessing mainframe data via the cloud. Mainframes hold an enormous amount of critical and sensitive business data including transactional information, healthcare records, customer data, and inventory metrics.

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Choosing an open table format for your transactional data lake on AWS

AWS Big Data

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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Query your Iceberg tables in data lake using Amazon Redshift (Preview)

AWS Big Data

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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