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Migrate an existing data lake to a transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

A data lake is a centralized repository that you can use to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. You can store your data as-is, without having to first structure the data and then run different types of analytics for better business insights.

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Build a serverless transactional data lake with Apache Iceberg, Amazon EMR Serverless, and Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

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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Power enterprise-grade Data Vaults with Amazon Redshift – Part 2

AWS Big Data

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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Introducing AWS Glue crawler and create table support for Apache Iceberg format

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. With each crawler run, the crawler inspects each of the S3 paths and catalogs the schema information, such as new tables, deletes, and updates to schemas in the Data Catalog.

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Break data silos and stream your CDC data with Amazon Redshift streaming and Amazon MSK

AWS Big Data

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. This solution uses Amazon Aurora MySQL hosting the example database salesdb.

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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.

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Join a streaming data source with CDC data for real-time serverless data analytics using AWS Glue, AWS DMS, and Amazon DynamoDB

AWS Big Data

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.