AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

Enterprises and organizations across the globe want to harness the power of data to make better decisions by putting data at the center of every decision-making process. However, throughout history, data services have held dominion over their customers’ data.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With this new functionality, customers can create up-to-date replicas of their data from applications such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Zendesk in an Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift. SageMaker Lakehouse gives you the flexibility to access and query your data in-place with all Apache Iceberg compatible tools and engines.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A modern data architecture is an evolutionary architecture pattern designed to integrate a data lake, data warehouse, and purpose-built stores with a unified governance model. The company wanted the ability to continue processing operational data in the secondary Region in the rare event of primary Region failure.

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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.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 28, 2023

As organizations across the globe are modernizing their data platforms with data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), handling SCDs in data lakes can be challenging.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In our previous post Improve operational efficiencies of Apache Iceberg tables built on Amazon S3 data lakes , we discussed how you can implement solutions to improve operational efficiencies of your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake that is using the Apache Iceberg open table format and running on the Amazon EMR big data platform.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 3, 2023

Terminology Let’s first discuss some of the terminology used in this post: Research data lake on Amazon S3 – A data lake is a large, centralized repository that allows you to manage all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. This is where the tagging feature in Apache Iceberg comes in handy.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2024

AWS-powered data lakes, supported by the unmatched availability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), can handle the scale, agility, and flexibility required to combine different data and analytics approaches.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 27, 2023

The AWS Glue Data Catalog provides a uniform repository where disparate systems can store and find metadata to keep track of data in data silos. Apache Flink is a widely used data processing engine for scalable streaming ETL, analytics, and event-driven applications.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 27, 2024

This enables you to use your data to acquire new insights for your business and customers. The objective of a disaster recovery plan is to reduce disruption by enabling quick recovery in the event of a disaster that leads to system failure. Snapshots are point-in-time backups of the Redshift data warehouse.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2023

This solution only replicates metadata in the Data Catalog, not the actual underlying data. To have a redundant data lake using Lake Formation and AWS Glue in an additional Region, we recommend replicating the Amazon S3-based storage using S3 replication , S3 sync, aws-s3-copy-sync-using-batch or S3 Batch replication process.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 25, 2024

For example, in a chatbot, data events could pertain to an inventory of flights and hotels or price changes that are constantly ingested to a streaming storage engine. Furthermore, data events are filtered, enriched, and transformed to a consumable format using a stream processor.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 15, 2024

By extracting detailed information from CloudTrail and querying it using Athena, this solution streamlines the process of data collection, analysis, and reporting of EIP usage within an AWS account. Additionally, you can analyze activity logs with AWS CloudTrail Lake and Amazon Athena.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It makes it fast, simple, and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Moreover, no separate effort is required to process historical data versus live streaming data. Apart from incremental analytics, Redshift simplifies a lot of operational aspects.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 8, 2024

It aims to provide a framework to create low-latency streaming applications on the AWS Cloud using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and AWS purpose-built data analytics services. In this post, we will review the common architectural patterns of two use cases: Time Series Data Analysis and Event Driven Microservices.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 17, 2024

With Amazon EMR 6.15, we launched AWS Lake Formation based fine-grained access controls (FGAC) on Open Table Formats (OTFs), including Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta lake. Many large enterprise companies seek to use their transactional data lake to gain insights and improve decision-making.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Debezium MySQL source Kafka Connector reads these change events and emits them to the Kafka topics in Amazon MSK.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 21, 2023

When setting out to build a data warehouse, it’s a common pattern to have a data lake as the source of the data warehouse. The data lake in this context serves a number of important functions: It acts as a central source for multiple applications, not just exclusively for data warehousing purposes.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 30, 2023

Customers have been using data warehousing solutions to perform their traditional analytics tasks. Recently, data lakes have gained lot of traction to become the foundation for analytical solutions, because they come with benefits such as scalability, fault tolerance, and support for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2023

Choose your level of metrics to monitor: Workgroup Namespace Snapshot storage If we select Workgroup , we can choose from the workgroup-level metrics shown in the following screenshot. The following screenshot shows the metrics available at the snapshot storage level. For instructions, refer to Subscribing to an Amazon SNS topic.

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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. You can visually create, run, and monitor extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to load data into your data lakes.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 19, 2023

We show how to perform extract, transform, and load (ELT), an integration process focused on getting the raw data from a data lake into a staging layer to perform the modeling. Lastly, we use Amazon QuickSight to gain insights on the modeled data in the form of a QuickSight dashboard. Identify and implement the facts.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 8, 2024

Apache Flink is an open source distributed processing engine, offering powerful programming interfaces for both stream and batch processing, with first-class support for stateful processing and event time semantics. This flexibility optimizes job performance by reducing checkpoint frequency during backlog phases, enhancing overall throughput.

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Domino Data Lab

JANUARY 11, 2021

This means trading off granularity and latency of data for structures that make it easier to write queries that aggregate, filter and group results for reporting purposes. That said, there are many advantages to ensuring that data scientists have full access to not only read from, but also be able to write to data warehouse structures.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Additionally, the scale is significant because the multi-tenant data sources provide a continuous stream of testing activity, and our users require quick data refreshes as well as historical context for up to a decade due to compliance and regulatory demands. Finally, data integrity is of paramount importance.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 20, 2023

Poshmark wanted to address the following business use cases via the real-time analytics platform: Sessionization – Poshmark captures both server-side application events and client-side tracking events. They wanted to use these events to identify and analyze user sessions to track behavior. The event data format is nested JSON.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 12, 2023

This data can come from a diverse range of sources, including Internet of Things (IoT) devices, user applications, and logging and telemetry information from applications, to name a few. By harnessing the power of streaming data, organizations are able to stay ahead of real-time events and make quick, informed decisions.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 16, 2023

Iceberg manages large collections of files as tables, and it supports modern analytical data lake operations such as record-level insert, update, delete, and time travel queries. Iceberg also helps guarantee data correctness under concurrent write scenarios. On the Code tab, choose Test , then Configure test event.

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Corinium

APRIL 25, 2019

Ahead of the Chief Data Analytics Officers & Influencers, Insurance event we caught up with Dominic Sartorio, Senior Vice President for Products & Development, Protegrity to discuss how the industry is evolving. In data-driven organizations, data is flowing.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 19, 2023

Organizations across all industries have complex data processing requirements for their analytical use cases across different analytics systems, such as data lakes on AWS , data warehouses ( Amazon Redshift ), search ( Amazon OpenSearch Service ), NoSQL ( Amazon DynamoDB ), machine learning ( Amazon SageMaker ), and more.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 9, 2025

As data use cases become more complex, data engineering teams require sophisticated tooling to handle versioning, increasing data volumes, and schema changes across multiple data sources and applications. For example, they might need to compare historical snapshots with current data to analyze trends over time.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 28, 2025

Many organizations turn to data lakes for the flexibility and scale needed to manage large volumes of structured and unstructured data. Recently, NI embarked on a journey to transition their legacy data lake from Apache Hive to Apache Iceberg. NIs leading brands, Top10.com

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Second, because traditional data warehousing approaches are unable to keep up with the volume, velocity, and variety of data, engineering teams are building data lakes and adopting open data formats such as Parquet and Apache Iceberg to store their data.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Data lakes were originally designed to store large volumes of raw, unstructured, or semi-structured data at a low cost, primarily serving big data and analytics use cases. Enabling automatic compaction on Iceberg tables reduces metadata overhead on your Iceberg tables and improves query performance.

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