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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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The data flywheel: A better way to think about your data strategy

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Every day, it helps countless organizations do everything from measure their ESG impact to create new streams of revenue, and consequently, companies without strong data cultures or concrete plans to build one are feeling the pressure. Some are our clients—and more of them are asking our help with their data strategy.

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Build a serverless transactional data lake with Apache Iceberg, Amazon EMR Serverless, and Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

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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Expanding data analysis and visualization options: Amazon DataZone now integrates with Tableau, Power BI, and more

AWS Big Data

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication supports through the Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more. Lionel Pulickal is Sr.

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

AWS Big Data

A modern data strategy redefines and enables sharing data across the enterprise and allows for both reading and writing of a singular instance of the data using an open table format. It enables organizations to quickly construct robust, high-performance data lakes that support ACID transactions and analytics workloads.

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Differences Between Data Lake and Data Warehouses

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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 […].