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Multicloud data lake analytics with Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

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. This serves as the S3 data lake data for this post.

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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data.

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

AWS Big Data

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. Apache Iceberg integration is supported by AWS analytics services including Amazon EMR , Amazon Athena , and AWS Glue. AWS Glue 3.0

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Deploy and Optimize Your Snowflake Environment Faster With Accelerators

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One modern data platform solution that provides simplicity and flexibility to grow is Snowflake’s data cloud and platform. These Snowflake accelerators reduce the time to analytics for your users at all levels so you can make data-driven decisions faster. Security Data Lake. Snowflake Health Check.

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Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Data Analytics Lens

AWS Big Data

We are delighted to announce the release of the Data Analytics Lens. Using the Lens in the Tool’s Lens Catalog, you can directly assess your Analytics workload in the console, and produce a set of actionable results for customized improvement plans recommended by the Tool. What’s new in the Data Analytics Lens?

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Speed up queries with the cost-based optimizer in Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

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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Build a transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, and cross-account data shares using AWS Lake Formation and Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides numerous benefits for an organization. However, many use cases, like performing change data capture (CDC) from an upstream relational database to an Amazon S3-based data lake, require handling data at a record level.