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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.

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Enriching metadata for accurate text-to-SQL generation for Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Enterprise data is brought into data lakes and data warehouses to carry out analytical, reporting, and data science use cases using AWS analytical services like Amazon Athena , Amazon Redshift , Amazon EMR , and so on. Table metadata is fetched from AWS Glue. The generated Athena SQL query is run.

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Recap of Amazon Redshift key product announcements in 2024

AWS Big Data

Today, Amazon Redshift is used by customers across all industries for a variety of use cases, including data warehouse migration and modernization, near real-time analytics, self-service analytics, data lake analytics, machine learning (ML), and data monetization. We have launched new RA3.large large instances.

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Build a high-performance quant research platform with Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

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.

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Monitoring Apache Iceberg metadata layer using AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, and AWS CloudWatch

AWS Big Data

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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Accelerate Amazon Redshift Data Lake queries with AWS Glue Data Catalog Column Statistics

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift enables you to efficiently query and retrieve structured and semi-structured data from open format files in Amazon S3 data lake without having to load the data into Amazon Redshift tables. Amazon Redshift extends SQL capabilities to your data lake, enabling you to run analytical queries.

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Use Apache Iceberg in a data lake to support incremental data processing

AWS Big Data

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets, which captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. Iceberg has become very popular for its support for ACID transactions in data lakes and features like schema and partition evolution, time travel, and rollback.

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