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Nancy Wu

Author: Nancy Wu

Nancy Wu is a Solutions Architect at AWS, responsible for cloud computing architecture consulting and design for multinational enterprise customers. Has many years of experience in big data, enterprise digital transformation research and development, consulting, and project management across telecommunications, entertainment, and financial industries.

Building end-to-end data lineage for one-time and complex queries using Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Neptune and dbt

In this post, we use dbt for data modeling on both Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift. dbt on Athena supports real-time queries, while dbt on Amazon Redshift handles complex queries, unifying the development language and significantly reducing the technical learning curve. Using a single dbt modeling language not only simplifies the development process but also automatically generates consistent data lineage information. This approach offers robust adaptability, easily accommodating changes in data structures.