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Modernize your legacy databases with AWS data lakes, Part 2: Build a data lake using AWS DMS data on Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

This is part two of a three-part series where we show how to build a data lake on AWS using a modern data architecture. This post shows how to load data from a legacy database (SQL Server) into a transactional data lake ( Apache Iceberg ) using AWS Glue. Delete the bucket.

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From Data Lake to Data Products: Operationalising Analytics at Scale

DataFloq

Introduction The rise of enterprise data lakes in the 2010s promised consolidated storage for any data at scale. However, while flexible and scalable, they often resulted in so-called “data swamps”- repositories of inaccessible, unmanaged, or low-quality data with fragmented ownership.

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Incremental refresh for Amazon Redshift materialized views on data lake tables

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it cost-effective to analyze your data using standard SQL and business intelligence tools. Customers use data lake tables to achieve cost effective storage and interoperability with other tools.

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From data lakes to insights: dbt adapter for Amazon Athena now supported in dbt Cloud

AWS Big Data

The need for streamlined data transformations As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-based data lakes and warehouses, the demand for efficient data transformation tools has grown. Using Athena and the dbt adapter, you can transform raw data in Amazon S3 into well-structured tables suitable for analytics.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data. Read this paper to learn about: The value of cloud data lakes as the new system of record.

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Data Lakehouses Enable Data as a Product

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

As a result of data mesh’s association with distributed data, many assumed that the concept was diametrically opposed to the data lake, which offered a platform for combining large volumes of data from multiple data sources.

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Drug Launch Case Study: Amazing Efficiency Using DataOps

DataKitchen

They opted for Snowflake, a cloud-native data platform ideal for SQL-based analysis. The team landed the data in a Data Lake implemented with cloud storage buckets and then loaded into Snowflake, enabling fast access and smooth integrations with analytical tools.

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12 Considerations When Evaluating Data Lake Engine Vendors for Analytics and BI

Businesses today compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights. To do so, modern enterprises leverage cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytical purposes, combined with various compute engines for processing that data.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

However, they often struggle with increasingly larger data volumes, reverting back to bottlenecking data access to manage large numbers of data engineering requests and rising data warehousing costs. This new open data architecture is built to maximize data access with minimal data movement and no data copies.

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The Unexpected Cost of Data Copies

Fortunately, a next-gen data architecture enabled by the Dremio data lake service removes the need for replicated data, helping organizations to minimize complexity, boost efficiency and dramatically reduce costs. Read this whitepaper to learn: Why organizations frequently end up with unnecessary data copies.

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Checklist Report: Preparing for the Next-Generation Cloud Data Architecture

Data architectures to support reporting, business intelligence, and analytics have evolved dramatically over the past 10 years.

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Building Best-in-Class Enterprise Analytics

Speaker: Anthony Roach, Director of Product Management at Tableau Software, and Jeremiah Morrow, Partner Solution Marketing Director at Dremio

Register now for the webinar on April 21, 2022 at 10:00 am PDT, 12:00 pm EDT to learn how Dremio and Tableau are delivering mission critical BI and interactive analytics on data directly in the data lake.

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Ultimate Guide to the Cloud Data Lake Engine

Cloud data lake engines aspire to deliver performance and efficiency breakthroughs that make the data lake a viable new home for many mainstream BI workloads. Key takeaways from the guide include: Why you should use a cloud data lake engine. What workloads are suitable for cloud data lake engines.

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Data Analytics in the Cloud for Developers and Founders

Speaker: Javier Ramírez, Senior AWS Developer Advocate, AWS

Will the data lake scale when you have twice as much data? Is your data secure? In this session, we address common pitfalls of building data lakes and show how AWS can help you manage data and analytics more efficiently. Javier Ramirez will present: The typical steps for building a data lake.