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

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

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AWS Big Data

MAY 30, 2023

Customers have been using data warehousing solutions to perform their traditional analytics tasks. Recently, data lakes have gained lot of traction to become the foundation for analytical solutions, because they come with benefits such as scalability, fault tolerance, and support for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 20, 2023

The AWS Data Lab offers accelerated, joint engineering engagements between customers and AWS technical resources to create tangible deliverables that accelerate data and analytics modernization initiatives. The data from the S3 data lake is used for batch processing and analytics through Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Building data lakes from continuously changing transactional data of databases and keeping data lakes up to date is a complex task and can be an operational challenge. You can then apply transformations and store data in Delta format for managing inserts, updates, and deletes.

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