AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Our customers are telling us that they are seeing their analytics and AI workloads increasingly converge around a lot of the same data, and this is changing how they are using analytics tools with their data. Introducing the next generation of SageMaker The rise of generative AI is changing how data and AI teams work together.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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.

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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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BizAcuity

MARCH 29, 2019

Data lakes are centralized repositories that can store all structured and unstructured data at any desired scale. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Organizations are collecting and storing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data like reports, whitepapers, and research documents. By consolidating this information, analysts can discover and integrate data from across the organization, creating valuable data products based on a unified dataset.

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Data Lake Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Modeling 115

Cloudera

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In August, we wrote about how in a future where distributed data architectures are inevitable, unifying and managing operational and business metadata is critical to successfully maximizing the value of data, analytics, and AI.

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Metadata Data Lake Dashboards Interactive 84

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

We also examine how centralized, hybrid and decentralized data architectures support scalable, trustworthy ecosystems. As data-centric AI, automated metadata management and privacy-aware data sharing mature, the opportunity to embed data quality into the enterprises core has never been more significant.

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Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

AWS Big Data

APRIL 24, 2025

Alice is excited about this decision as she can now build daily reports using her expertise with Athena. Ava defines the user attributes as static IAM tags that could also include attributes stored in the identity provider (IdP) or as session tags dynamically to represent the user metadata. Set up a data lake admin.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 3, 2021

First-generation – expensive, proprietary enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. Second-generation – gigantic, complex data lake maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. Easy to report problems and receive updates on fixes.

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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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Data Lake Analytics Snapshot Data Quality 98

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

AUGUST 1, 2023

Although Jira Cloud provides reporting capability, loading this data into a data lake will facilitate enrichment with other business data, as well as support the use of business intelligence (BI) tools and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications. For InitialRunFlag , choose Setup.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

However, enterprises often encounter challenges with data silos, insufficient access controls, poor governance, and quality issues. Embracing data as a product is the key to address these challenges and foster a data-driven culture. Amazon Athena is used to query, and explore the data.

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Sales Data-driven Data Processing Key Performance Indicator 115

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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

Corporate ESG reporting is getting real for companies around the globe. Enacted and proposed regulations in the EU, US, and beyond are deepening reporting requirements in an effort to change business behavior. The foundation for ESG reporting, of course, is data. The foundation for ESG reporting, of course, is data.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 9, 2021

In essence, a domain is an integrated data set and a set of views, reports, dashboards, and artifacts created from the data. The domain also includes code that acts upon the data, including tools, pipelines, and other artifacts that drive analytics execution.

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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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Data Governance Metadata Testing Data Lake 145

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s data-driven world , organizations are constantly seeking efficient ways to process and analyze vast amounts of information across data lakes and warehouses. This post will showcase how this data can also be queried by other data teams using Amazon Athena. Verify that you have Python version 3.7

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Data Lake Metadata Insurance Data-driven 116

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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Optimization Snapshot Data Lake Metadata 126

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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Data Lake Unstructured Data Data Warehouse Big Data 119

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

A data management platform (DMP) is a group of tools designed to help organizations collect and manage data from a wide array of sources and to create reports that help explain what is happening in those data streams. Deploying a DMP can be a great way for companies to navigate a business world dominated by data.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For the past 5 years, BMS has used a custom framework called Enterprise Data Lake Services (EDLS) to create ETL jobs for business users. EDLS job steps and metadata Every EDLS job comprises one or more job steps chained together and run in a predefined order orchestrated by the custom ETL framework.

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Metadata Data Lake Visualization Data Quality 111

Cloudera

JANUARY 19, 2022

Gartner® recognized Cloudera in three recent reports – Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS), Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Analytical Use Cases and Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases. Download the reports to see the detailed scores .

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Since its launch in 2006, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) has experienced major growth, supporting multiple use cases such as hosting websites, creating data lakes, serving as object storage for consumer applications, storing logs, and archiving data. Enable the Cost and Usage Reports. Run queries in Athena.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The delays impact delivery of the reports to senior management, who are responsible for making business decisions based on the dashboard. The automated orchestration published the data to an AWS S3 Data Lake. I use the business rules I received from the business analyst to process the source data using Python.

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Testing Metadata Dashboards Statistics 152

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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Data Architecture Metadata Data Lake Snapshot 93

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.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Zero-ETL integration also enables you to load and analyze data from multiple operational database clusters in a new or existing Amazon Redshift instance to derive holistic insights across many applications. Use one click to access your data lake tables using auto-mounted AWS Glue data catalogs on Amazon Redshift for a simplified experience.

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Data Warehouse Analytics Data Lake Machine Learning 130

Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an earlier blog, I defined a data catalog as “a collection of metadata, combined with data management and search tools, that helps analysts and other data users to find the data that they need, serves as an inventory of available data, and provides information to evaluate fitness data for intended uses.”.

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Metadata Management Data Lake Data Governance 52

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In this post, we show how Ruparupa implemented an incrementally updated data lake to get insights into their business using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Glue , Apache Hudi , and Amazon QuickSight. An AWS Glue ETL job, using the Apache Hudi connector, updates the S3 data lake hourly with incremental data.

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Data Lake Dashboards Cost-Benefit Data Warehouse 52

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 3, 2023

“You had to be an expert in the programming language that interacts with that data, and understand the relationships of each data element within each data source, let alone understand its relation to elements in other data sources,” he says. Without those templates, it’s hard to add such information after the fact.”

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Analytics Data Lake Metadata Cost-Benefit 98

erwin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

To better understand and align data governance and enterprise architecture, let’s look at data at rest and data in motion and why they both have to be documented. Documenting data at rest involves looking at where data is stored, such as in databases, data lakes , data warehouses and flat files.

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Data Governance Enterprise Risk Data Lake 144

Octopai

MARCH 22, 2021

Elimination of data silos, consistency, accessibility, reliability, scalability, power of the cloud…. Snowflake is still exploding with data, and dealing with the ever-familiar issues like reporting errors, impact analysis, finding where PII is located and more can still cause your BI team to, well…. Cleaning up dirty data.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated. It differs from a data lake by offering data that is pre-validated and standardized, allowing for simpler consumption by users. Data hubs and data lakes can coexist in an organization, complementing each other.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

An Amazon DataZone domain contains an associated business data catalog for search and discovery, a set of metadata definitions to decorate the data assets that are used for discovery purposes, and data projects with integrated analytics and ML tools for users and groups to consume and publish data assets.

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Metadata Data Lake Publishing Data Governance 119

AWS Big Data

MARCH 27, 2023

Developers, data scientists, and analysts can work across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes to build reporting and dashboarding applications, perform real-time analytics, share and collaborate on data, and even build and train machine learning (ML) models with Redshift Serverless. Choose Activate.

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