AWS Big Data

AUGUST 9, 2023

The combination of a data lake in a serverless paradigm brings significant cost and performance benefits. By monitoring application logs, you can gain insights into job execution, troubleshoot issues promptly to ensure the overall health and reliability of data pipelines.

Data Lake 93

Data Lake Metrics Cost-Benefit Testing 93

DataKitchen

AUGUST 19, 2021

Figure 3 shows an example processing architecture with data flowing in from internal and external sources. Each data source is updated on its own schedule, for example, daily, weekly or monthly. The data scientists and analysts have what they need to build analytics for the user. The new Recipes run, and BOOM! Conclusion.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The DataFrame code generation now extends beyond AWS Glue DynamicFrame to support a broader range of data processing scenarios. The TICKIT dataset records sales activities on the fictional TICKIT website, where users can purchase and sell tickets online for different types of events such as sports games, shows, and concerts.

Data Integration 93

Data Integration Visualization Data Processing Big Data 93

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

For many organizations, this centralized data store follows a data lake architecture. Although data lakes provide a centralized repository, making sense of this data and extracting valuable insights can be challenging. Amazon S3 emits an object created event and matches an EventBridge rule.

Data Lake 100

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Modeling 100

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.

Data Lake 125

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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.

Data Lake 103

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

These features allow efficient data corrections, gap-filling in time series, and historical data updates without disrupting ongoing analyses or compromising data integrity. 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

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Data lakes are a popular choice for today’s organizations to store their data around their business activities. As a best practice of a data lake design, data should be immutable once stored. A data lake built on AWS uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as its primary storage environment.

Data Lake 90

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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.

Data Lake 80

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 31, 2023

It also helps you to securely access your data in operational databases, data lakes or third-party datasets with minimal movement or copying. Amazon S3 Event Notifications is an Amazon S3 feature that you can enable in order to receive notifications when specific events occur in your S3 bucket.

Data Warehouse 95

Data Warehouse Data-driven Testing Business Intelligence 95

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.

Optimization 122

Optimization Snapshot Data Lake Metadata 122

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).

Data Lake 80

Data Lake Snapshot Optimization Data Transformation 80

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As he thinks through the various journeys that data take in his company, Jason sees that his dashboard idea would require extracting or testing for events along the way. So, the only way for a data journey to truly observe what’s happening is to get his tools and pipelines to auto-report events.

Testing 130

Testing Statistics Measurement Metrics 130

AWS Big Data

JUNE 19, 2023

Security Lake automatically centralizes security data from cloud, on-premises, and custom sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account. With Security Lake, you can get a more complete understanding of your security data across your entire organization.

Publishing 95

Publishing Dashboards Visualization Management 95

DataKitchen

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The data engineer then emails the BI Team, who refreshes a Tableau dashboard. Figure 1: Example data pipeline with manual processes. There are no automated tests , so errors frequently pass through the pipeline. Figure 2: Example data pipeline with DataOps automation. Adding Tests to Reduce Stress.

Testing 152

Testing Metadata Dashboards Statistics 152

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This premier event showcased groundbreaking advancements, keynotes from AWS leadership, hands-on technical sessions, and exciting product launches. 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.

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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.

Snapshot 94

Snapshot Data Lake Testing Strategy 94

AWS Big Data

MAY 29, 2024

To enable access control with Lake Formation for Redshift tables, we use data sharing in Lake Formation. Data access requests by the specific users are logged to CloudTrail. Later in this post, we also briefly touch upon using CloudTrail Lake to query the data access events.

Data Lake 93

Data Lake Enterprise Management Business Intelligence 93

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 21, 2024

Unlike many other events, which consist of multiple racing teams and manufacturers, Porsche Carrera Cup Brasil provides and maintains all 75 cars used in the race. If I don’t do predictive maintenance, if I have to do corrective maintenance at events, a lot of money is wasted.”

Broadcasting 126

Broadcasting Recreation/Entertainment Manufacturing Data Lake 126

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Data governance is the process of ensuring the integrity, availability, usability, and security of an organization’s data. Due to the volume, velocity, and variety of data being ingested in data lakes, it can get challenging to develop and maintain policies and procedures to ensure data governance at scale for your data lake.

Data Quality 103

Data Quality Data Governance Data Lake Testing 103

DataKitchen

JUNE 12, 2023

We had been talking about “Agile Analytic Operations,” “DevOps for Data Teams,” and “Lean Manufacturing For Data,” but the concept was hard to get across and communicate. I spent much time de-categorizing DataOps: we are not discussing ETL, Data Lake, or Data Science.

Testing 130

Testing Dashboards Data Lake Data Science 130

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

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Due to these limitations, the application should not be used for arbitrary tests. In this post, we provide instructions on how to deploy a sample API application integrated with Lake Formation that implements the solution architecture. We also show how to test the function with Lambda tests.

Data Lake 83

Data Lake Metadata Testing Data Processing 83

AWS Big Data

JUNE 8, 2023

With automated alerting with a third-party service like PagerDuty , an incident management platform, combined with the robust and powerful alerting plugin provided by OpenSearch Service, businesses can proactively manage and respond to critical events. Leave the defaults and choose Next.

Data Lake 86

Data Lake Dashboards Metrics Testing 86

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. Apache Hudi supports ACID transactions and CRUD operations on a data lake. You don’t alter queries separately in the data lake.

Data Lake 80

Data Lake Testing Big Data Structured Data 80

AWS Big Data

JUNE 5, 2024

The integration is new way for customers to query operational logs in Amazon S3 and Amazon S3-based data lakes without needing to switch between tools to analyze operational data. Amazon S3 is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

Data Lake 104

Data Lake Dashboards Cost-Benefit Visualization 104

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 13, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehousing service that offers both provisioned and serverless options, making it more efficient to run and scale analytics without having to manage your data warehouse. Additionally, data is extracted from vendor APIs that includes data related to product, marketing, and customer experience.

Data Warehouse 104

Data Warehouse Analytics Data Lake Data Science 104

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 8, 2024

Today’s data lakes are expanding across lines of business operating in diverse landscapes and using various engines to process and analyze data. Traditionally, SQL views have been used to define and share filtered data sets that meet the requirements of these lines of business for easier consumption.

Data Lake 99

Data Lake Sales Marketing Big Data 99

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

To access data in real time — and ensure that it provides actionable insights for all stakeholders — organizations should invest in the foundational components that enable more efficient, scalable, and secure data collection, processing, and analysis. Nichol ( @PeterBNichol ), Chief Technology Officer at OROCA Innovations. “The

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Cost-Benefit Internet of Things Data-driven Data Lake 122

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To bring their customers the best deals and user experience, smava follows the modern data architecture principles with a data lake as a scalable, durable data store and purpose-built data stores for analytical processing and data consumption.

Data Lake 103

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 2, 2023

Many organizations are building data lakes to store and analyze large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. In addition, many teams are moving towards a data mesh architecture, which requires them to expose their data sets as easily consumable data products.

Data Lake 83

Data Lake Testing Interactive Unstructured Data 83

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

The biggest challenge for any big enterprise is organizing the data that has organically grown across the organization over the last several years. Everyone has data lakes, data ponds – whatever you want to call them. How do you get your arms around all the data you have? This isn’t unique to Verizon.

Testing 98

Testing Advertising Data Lake Marketing 98

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 7, 2024

It also makes it easier for engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and business users to access data throughout an organization to discover, use, and collaborate to derive data-driven insights. Note that a managed data asset is an asset for which Amazon DataZone can manage permissions.

Metadata 86

Metadata Data Lake Data Processing Data-driven 86

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Data lakes are designed for storing vast amounts of raw, unstructured, or semi-structured data at a low cost, and organizations share those datasets across multiple departments and teams. The queries on these large datasets read vast amounts of data and can perform complex join operations on multiple datasets.

Statistics 113

Statistics Data Lake Optimization Data-driven 113

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

You might be modernizing your data architecture using Amazon Redshift to enable access to your data lake and data in your data warehouse, and are looking for a centralized and scalable way to define and manage the data access based on IdP identities. For IAM role , choose a Lake Formation user-defined role.

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