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

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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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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

JUNE 10, 2024

Cloudinary is a cloud-based media management platform that provides a comprehensive set of tools and services for managing, optimizing, and delivering images, videos, and other media assets on websites and mobile applications.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Over the years, this customer-centric approach has led to the introduction of groundbreaking features such as zero-ETL , data sharing , streaming ingestion , data lake integration , Amazon Redshift ML , Amazon Q generative SQL , and transactional data lake capabilities.

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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

MARCH 2, 2023

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. and later supports the Apache Iceberg framework for data lakes. AWS Glue 3.0 The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture.

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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

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

JULY 31, 2024

In the current industry landscape, data lakes have become a cornerstone of modern data architecture, serving as repositories for vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Maintaining data consistency and integrity across distributed data lakes is crucial for decision-making and analytics.

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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

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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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2025

These include architectural optimizations to reduce memory usage and query times with more efficient batch processing to deliver better throughput, faster bulk writes and accelerated concurrent writes during data replication. also delivers enhanced developer-centric features focused on the development of AI applications.

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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

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. About the Authors Dave Horne is a Sr.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 21, 2024

To address this requirement, Redshift Serverless launched the artificial intelligence (AI)-driven scaling and optimization feature, which scales the compute not only based on the queuing, but also factoring data volume and query complexity. The slider offers the following options: Optimized for cost – Prioritizes cost savings.

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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

APRIL 18, 2024

The Salesforce Trust Intelligence Platform (TIP) log platform team is responsible for data pipeline and data lake infrastructure, providing log ingestion, normalization, persistence, search, and detection capability to ensure Salesforce is safe from threat actors. Headquartered in San Francisco, Salesforce, Inc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Beyond breaking down silos, modern data architectures need to provide interfaces that make it easy for users to consume data using tools fit for their jobs. Data must be able to freely move to and from data warehouses, data lakes, and data marts, and interfaces must make it easy for users to consume that data.

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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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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It expands beyond tools and data architecture and views the data organization from the perspective of its processes and workflows. The DataKitchen Platform is a “ process hub” that masters and optimizes those processes. Cloud computing has made it much easier to integrate data sets, but that’s only the beginning.

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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

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

JANUARY 9, 2025

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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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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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

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

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. Search for the Jira Cloud connector.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Organizations have chosen to build data lakes on top of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for many years. A data lake is the most popular choice for organizations to store all their organizational data generated by different teams, across business domains, from all different formats, and even over history.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

For the first time, we’re consolidating data to create real-time dashboards for revenue forecasting, resource optimization, and labor utilization. We pulled these people together, and defined use cases we could all agree were the best to demonstrate our new data capability. How is the new platform helping?

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AWS Big Data

MAY 20, 2024

Whether you are new to Apache Iceberg on AWS or already running production workloads on AWS, this comprehensive technical guide offers detailed guidance on foundational concepts to advanced optimizations to build your transactional data lake with Apache Iceberg on AWS. He can be reached via LinkedIn.

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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. She has been heavily involved in the Data Sharing Project, focusing on the implementation of Amazon DataZone into EUROGATEs IT environment.

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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.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Optimizing GenAI with data management More than ever, businesses need to mitigate these risks while discovering the best approach to data management. The data preparation process should take place alongside a long-term strategy built around GenAI use cases, such as content creation, digital assistants, and code generation.

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