AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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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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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Open table formats are emerging in the rapidly evolving domain of big data management, fundamentally altering the landscape of data storage and analysis. By providing a standardized framework for data representation, open table formats break down data silos, enhance data quality, and accelerate analytics at scale.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 8, 2025

In modern data architectures, Apache Iceberg has emerged as a popular table format for data lakes, offering key features including ACID transactions and concurrent write support. We will also cover the pattern with automatic compaction through AWS Glue Data Catalog table optimization. Generate new metadata files.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

For container terminal operators, data-driven decision-making and efficient data sharing are vital to optimizing operations and boosting supply chain efficiency. From here, the metadata is published to Amazon DataZone by using AWS Glue Data Catalog. This process is shown in the following figure.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift uses generative AI to analyze user intent, query patterns, and schema metadata to identify common SQL query patterns directly within Amazon Redshift, accelerating the query authoring process for users and reducing the time required to derive actionable data insights.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amazon Redshift enables you to directly access data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using SQL queries and join data across your data warehouse and data lake. With Amazon Redshift, you can query the data in your S3 data lake using a central AWS Glue metastore from your Redshift data warehouse.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

Many organizations operate data lakes spanning multiple cloud data stores. In these cases, you may want an integrated query layer to seamlessly run analytical queries across these diverse cloud stores and streamline your data analytics processes. The AWS Glue Data Catalog holds the metadata for Amazon S3 and GCS data.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The AWS Glue Data Catalog now enhances managed table optimization of Apache Iceberg tables by automatically removing data files that are no longer needed. Iceberg creates a new version called a snapshot for every change to the data in the table. As more table changes are made, more data files are created.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We often see requests from customers who have started their data journey by building data lakes on Microsoft Azure, to extend access to the data to AWS services. In such scenarios, data engineers face challenges in connecting and extracting data from storage containers on Microsoft Azure.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 15, 2024

Unlocking the true value of data often gets impeded by siloed information. Traditional data management—wherein each business unit ingests raw data in separate data lakes or warehouses—hinders visibility and cross-functional analysis. Amazon DataZone natively supports data sharing for Amazon Redshift data assets.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

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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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

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. Moreover, the framework should consume compute resources as optimally as possible per the size of the operational tables.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 24, 2023

When you build your transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg to solve your functional use cases, you need to focus on operational use cases for your S3 data lake to optimize the production environment. This property is set to true by default. availability.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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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.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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. From enhancing data lakes to empowering AI-driven analytics, AWS unveiled new tools and services that are set to shape the future of data and analytics.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

You can analyze data or build applications from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake and 30 data sources, including on-premises data sources or other cloud systems using SQL or Python. Let’s discuss some of the cost-based optimization techniques that contributed to improved query performance.

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Jet Global

JULY 2, 2019

To address the flood of data and the needs of enterprise businesses to store, sort, and analyze that data, a new storage solution has evolved: the data lake. What’s in a Data Lake? Data warehouses do a great job of standardizing data from disparate sources for analysis. Taking a Dip.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 15, 2023

In today’s world, customers manage vast amounts of data in their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, which requires convoluted data pipelines to continuously understand the changes in the data layout and make them available to consuming systems.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 5, 2021

What is Delta Lake? Developed at Databricks, “Delta Lake is an open-source data storage layer that runs on the existing Data Lake and is fully cooperative with Apache Spark APIs. Delta Lake uses versioned Parquet files to store data in the cloud. Advantages of using Delta Lakes.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For data lake customers who need to discover petabytes of data, AWS Glue crawlers are a popular way to discover and catalog data in the background. This allows users to search and find relevant data from multiple data sources. Choose the table to view the schema and other metadata.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

However, they do contain effective data management, organization, and integrity capabilities. As a result, users can easily find what they need, and organizations avoid the operational and cost burdens of storing unneeded or duplicate data copies. Warehouse, data lake convergence. Meet the data lakehouse.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Apache Hudi is an open table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to data lakes. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving datasets with transactions while maintaining query performance. For CoW tables, queries see the latest data committed.

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erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

These tools range from enterprise service bus (ESB) products, data integration tools; extract, transform and load (ETL) tools, procedural code, application program interfaces (APIs), file transfer protocol (FTP) processes, and even business intelligence (BI) reports that further aggregate and transform data.

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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. It will never remove files that are still required by a non-expired snapshot.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2024

At the same time, they need to optimize operational costs to unlock the value of this data for timely insights and do so with a consistent performance. With this massive data growth, data proliferation across your data stores, data warehouse, and data lakes can become equally challenging.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Modernizing analytics for scale, performance, and reliability “Our migration from legacy on-premises platform to Amazon Redshift allows us to ingest data 88% faster, query data 3x faster, and load daily data to the cloud 6x faster.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

For many enterprises, a hybrid cloud data lake is no longer a trend, but becoming reality. Not only can resources be quickly provisioned and optimized for different workloads and processing needs, but it can be done cost effectively. The Alation Data Catalog will automatically crawl and catalog metadata in your S3 bucket(s).

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

BladeBridge offers a comprehensive suite of tools that automate much of the complex conversion work, allowing organizations to quickly and reliably transition their data analytics capabilities to the scalable Amazon Redshift data warehouse. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 7, 2023

Through their unique position in ports, at sea, and on roads, they optimize global cargo flows and create sustainable customer value. Cargotec captures terabytes of IoT telemetry data from their machinery operated by numerous customers across the globe. An AWS Glue job (metadata exporter) runs daily on the source account.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 21, 2021

With CDW, as an integrated service of CDP, your line of business gets immediate resources needed for faster application launches and expedited data access, all while protecting the company’s multi-year investment in centralized data management, security, and governance. Proprietary file formats mean no one else is invited in!

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. On data warehouses and data lakes.

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Cloudera

APRIL 22, 2021

Apache Ozone is one of the major innovations introduced in CDP, which provides the next generation storage architecture for Big Data applications, where data blocks are organized in storage containers for larger scale and to handle small objects. Collects and aggregates metadata from components and present cluster state.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 25, 2024

This post is co-authored by Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Director of Product, Salesforce Data Cloud. In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations collect a wealth of data across various touch points and unify it in a central data warehouse or a data lake to deliver business insights.

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