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

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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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How Aura from Unity revolutionized their big data pipeline with Amazon Redshift Serverless

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Amazon Redshift is a recommended service for online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads such as cloud data warehouses, data marts, and other analytical data stores. You can use simple SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data, operational databases, and data lakes to deliver the best price/performance at any scale.

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Data Modeling 201 for the cloud: designing databases for data warehouses

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The first and most important thing to recognize and understand is the new and radically different target environment that you are now designing a data model for. Star schema: a data modeling and database design paradigm for data warehouses and data lakes. Don’t obstruct the optimizer from seeing it’s a star schema.