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From data lakes to insights: dbt adapter for Amazon Athena now supported in dbt Cloud

AWS Big Data

The need for streamlined data transformations As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-based data lakes and warehouses, the demand for efficient data transformation tools has grown.

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Here’s Why Automation For Data Lakes Could Be Important

Smart Data Collective

Data Lakes are among the most complex and sophisticated data storage and processing facilities we have available to us today as human beings. Analytics Magazine notes that data lakes are among the most useful tools that an enterprise may have at its disposal when aiming to compete with competitors via innovation.

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Monitor data pipelines in a serverless data lake

AWS Big Data

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.

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Choosing an open table format for your transactional data lake on AWS

AWS Big Data

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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Enhance monitoring and debugging for AWS Glue jobs using new job observability metrics

AWS Big Data

Today we are pleased to announce a new class of Amazon CloudWatch metrics reported with your pipelines built on top of AWS Glue for Apache Spark jobs. The new metrics provide aggregate and fine-grained insights into the health and operations of your job runs and the data being processed. workerUtilization showed 1.0

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How Cloudinary transformed their petabyte scale streaming data lake with Apache Iceberg and AWS Analytics

AWS Big Data

Since Apache Iceberg is well supported by AWS data services and Cloudinary was already using Spark on Amazon EMR, they could integrate writing to Data Catalog and start an additional Spark cluster to handle data maintenance and compaction. For example, for certain queries, Athena runtime was 2x–4x faster than Snowflake.

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Orca Security’s journey to a petabyte-scale data lake with Apache Iceberg and AWS Analytics

AWS Big Data

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.