AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We often see requests from customers who have started their data journey by building data lakes on Microsoft Azure, to extend access to the data to AWS services. In such scenarios, data engineers face challenges in connecting and extracting data from storage containers on Microsoft Azure.

Data Lake 107

Data Lake Metadata Management Software 107

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

Iceberg offers distinct advantages through its metadata layer over Parquet, such as improved data management, performance optimization, and integration with various query engines. Unlike direct Amazon S3 access, Iceberg supports these operations on petabyte-scale data lakes without requiring complex custom code.

Metadata 106

Metadata Snapshot Cost-Benefit Optimization 106

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.

Data Lake 93

Data Lake Analytics Snapshot Data Quality 93

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

For container terminal operators, data-driven decision-making and efficient data sharing are vital to optimizing operations and boosting supply chain efficiency. While real-time data is processed by other applications, this setup maintains high-performance analytics without the expense of continuous processing.

IoT 100

IoT Machine Learning Metadata Data-driven 100

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

How will organizations wield AI to seize greater opportunities, engage employees, and drive secure access without compromising data integrity and compliance? While it may sound simplistic, the first step towards managing high-quality data and right-sizing AI is defining the GenAI use cases for your business.

Strategy 143

Strategy Modeling Management Data Lake 143

AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources.

Metadata 118

Metadata Snapshot Data Lake Metrics 118

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Analytics remained one of the key focus areas this year, with significant updates and innovations aimed at helping businesses harness their data more efficiently and accelerate insights. From enhancing data lakes to empowering AI-driven analytics, AWS unveiled new tools and services that are set to shape the future of data and analytics.

Analytics 59

Analytics Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse 59

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Comparison of modern data architectures : Architecture Definition Strengths Weaknesses Best used when Data warehouse Centralized, structured and curated data repository. Inflexible schema, poor for unstructured or real-time data. Data lake Raw storage for all types of structured and unstructured data.

Data Quality 102

Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

AWS Big Data

JUNE 25, 2024

This post is co-authored by Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Director of Product, Salesforce Data Cloud. In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations collect a wealth of data across various touch points and unify it in a central data warehouse or a data lake to deliver business insights.

Data Lake 111

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Warehouse 111

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Important considerations for preview As you begin using automated Spark upgrades during the preview period, there are several important aspects to consider for optimal usage of the service: Service scope and limitations – The preview release focuses on PySpark code upgrades from AWS Glue versions 2.0 to version 4.0.

Cost-Benefit 95

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Software Testing 95

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Modernizing analytics for scale, performance, and reliability “Our migration from legacy on-premises platform to Amazon Redshift allows us to ingest data 88% faster, query data 3x faster, and load daily data to the cloud 6x faster.

Data Warehouse 112

Data Warehouse Analytics Data Lake Machine Learning 112

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

The data lakehouse is a relatively new data architecture concept, first championed by Cloudera, which offers both storage and analytics capabilities as part of the same solution, in contrast to the concepts for data lake and data warehouse which, respectively, store data in native format, and structured data, often in SQL format.

Recreation/Entertainment 119

Recreation/Entertainment Data Lake Data Warehouse Unstructured Data 119

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This logical abstraction of physical data sources enables enterprises to share access to and gain insight from data that might otherwise be limited to individual applications or business units.

Management 130

Management Data-driven Data Governance Data Lake 130

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Apache Hudi is an open table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to data lakes. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving datasets with transactions while maintaining query performance. For CoW tables, queries see the latest data committed.

Data Lake 106

Data Lake Snapshot Metadata Optimization 106

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Your applications can seamlessly read from and write to your Amazon Redshift data warehouse while maintaining optimal performance and transactional consistency. Additionally, you’ll benefit from performance improvements through pushdown optimizations, further enhancing the efficiency of your operations. options(**read_config).option("query",

Data Processing 105

Data Processing Data Lake Data Warehouse Optimization 105

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT) Ceasars Forum ANT318 | Accelerate innovation with end-to-end serverless data architecture. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (PDT) Wynn ANT207 | Understand your data with business context. 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (PDT) Venetian ANT201 | Accelerate innovation with real-time data.

Analytics 119

Analytics Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven 119

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 12, 2024

Leadership and development teams can spend more time optimizing current solutions and even experimenting with new use cases, rather than maintaining the current infrastructure. With the ability to move fast on AWS, you also need to be responsible with the data you’re receiving and processing as you continue to scale.

Data Lake 108

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Visualization Structured Data 108

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

However, enterprises often encounter challenges with data silos, insufficient access controls, poor governance, and quality issues. Embracing data as a product is the key to address these challenges and foster a data-driven culture. In this context, Amazon DataZone is the optimal choice for managing the enterprise data platform.

Sales 104

Sales Data-driven Data Processing Key Performance Indicator 104

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

All this data arrives by the terabyte, and a data management platform can help marketers make sense of it all. Marketing-focused or not, DMPs excel at negotiating with a wide array of databases, data lakes, or data warehouses, ingesting their streams of data and then cleaning, sorting, and unifying the information therein.

Management 144

Management Advertising Data Lake Sales 144

BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This typically requires a data warehouse for analytics needs that is able to ingest and handle real time data of huge volumes. Snowflake is a cloud-native platform that eliminates the need for separate data warehouses, data lakes, and data marts allowing secure data sharing across the organization.

Data Warehouse 98

Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Data Lake Internet of Things 98

Cloudera

JUNE 2, 2022

Over the last decade, we have often heard about the proliferation of data creating sources (mobile applications, laptops, sensors, enterprise apps) in heterogeneous environments (cloud, on-prem, edge) resulting in the exponential growth of data being created.

Enterprise 104

Enterprise Data Lake Data Collection Data-driven 104

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Customers often want to augment and enrich SAP source data with other non-SAP source data. Such analytic use cases can be enabled by building a data warehouse or data lake. Customers can now use the AWS Glue SAP OData connector to extract data from SAP.

Visualization 90

Visualization Data Processing Data-driven Cost-Benefit 90

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The digital transformation of P&G’s manufacturing platform will enable the company to check product quality in real-time directly on the production line, maximize the resiliency of equipment while avoiding waste, and optimize the use of energy and water in manufacturing plants.

Manufacturing 145

Manufacturing Digital Transformation IoT Internet of Things 145

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Amazon Redshift enables you to use SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning (ML) to deliver the best price-performance at scale. These upstream data sources constitute the data producer components.

Data Warehouse 104

Data Warehouse Analytics Data Lake Data Science 104

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In this post, we show how Ruparupa implemented an incrementally updated data lake to get insights into their business using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Glue , Apache Hudi , and Amazon QuickSight. An AWS Glue ETL job, using the Apache Hudi connector, updates the S3 data lake hourly with incremental data.

Data Lake 52

Data Lake Dashboards Cost-Benefit Data Warehouse 52

AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

Generating business outcomes In 4 days, the Altron SI team left the Immersion Day workshop with the following: A data pipeline ingesting data from 21 sources (SQL tables and files) and combining them into three mastered and harmonized views that are cataloged for Altron’s B2B accounts.

Optimization 95

Optimization B2B Data Quality Sales 95

AWS Big Data

MAY 3, 2023

In today’s data-driven business environment, organizations face the challenge of efficiently preparing and transforming large amounts of data for analytics and data science purposes. Businesses need to build data warehouses and data lakes based on operational data.

Data Lake 92

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven Optimization 92

erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The desire to modernize technology, over time, leads to acquiring many different systems with various data entry points and transformation rules for data as it moves into and across the organization. The metadata-driven suite automatically finds, models, ingests, catalogs and governs cloud data assets.

Data Governance 145

Data Governance Metadata Testing Data Lake 145

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Get a closer look at how scaling for data warehousing works in AWS with the latest introduction of AI driven scaling and optimizations in Amazon Redshift Serverless to enable better price-performance for your workloads. Discover how you can use Amazon Redshift to build a data mesh architecture to analyze your data.

Data Warehouse 109

Data Warehouse Machine Learning Data-driven Data Lake 109

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Today, we are pleased to announce new AWS Glue connectors for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage that allow you to move data bi-directionally between Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). option("header","true").load("wasbs://yourblob@youraccountname.blob.core.windows.net/loadingtest-input/100mb")

Data Lake 97

Data Lake Big Data Data Warehouse Consulting 97

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 19, 2024

As organizations increasingly rely on data stored across various platforms, such as Snowflake , Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and various software as a service (SaaS) applications, the challenge of bringing these disparate data sources together has never been more pressing.

Analytics 107

Analytics Data-driven Data Integration Data Lake 107

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We have seen a strong customer demand to expand its scope to cloud-based data lakes because data lakes are increasingly the enterprise solution for large-scale data initiatives due to their power and capabilities. The team uses dbt-glue to build a transformed gold model optimized for business intelligence (BI).

Data Lake 116

Data Lake Management Metrics Data Warehouse 116

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This would be straightforward task were it not for the fact that, during the digital-era, there has been an explosion of data – collected and stored everywhere – much of it poorly governed, ill-understood, and irrelevant. Further, data management activities don’t end once the AI model has been developed. Addressing the Challenge.

Data Governance 145

Data Governance IT Data Lake Risk 145

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics in 2021, it became more critical to scale and generate near-real-time data. This introduces the need for both polling and pushing the data to access and analyze in near-real time.

Optimization 52

Optimization Forecasting Data Lake Metadata 52

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You also need services to store data for analysis and machine learning (ML) like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Customers have created hundreds of thousands of data lakes on Amazon S3. It does all of this while factoring in your price/performance targets so you can optimize between cost and performance.

Data Warehouse 116

Data Warehouse Data Lake Dashboards Data Integration 116

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2022

Over the last decade, we have often heard about the proliferation of data creating sources (mobile applications, laptops, sensors, enterprise apps) in heterogeneous environments (cloud, on-prem, edge) resulting in the exponential growth of data being created.

Enterprise 88

Enterprise Data Lake Data Collection Data-driven 88

AWS Big Data

MAY 9, 2023

Hundreds of thousands of customers use AWS Glue , a serverless data integration service, to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. AWS Glue for Apache Spark jobs work with your code and configuration of the number of data processing units (DPU).

Data Lake 101

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Data Integration Data Transformation 101