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Rick Wiggins

Author: Rick Wiggins

Rick Wiggins is a Senior Consultant with AWS Professional Services. His specialty is in Migrations and Multi-Account Architecture for large Enterprise customers in the US Government. His passion is building and automating Infrastructure and Operations to allow customers to focus more on their business. In his spare time, he can be found hanging out with his wife and three kids or tinkering with some new Alexa skill.

Create Tables in Amazon Athena from Nested JSON and Mappings Using JSONSerDe

July 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Most systems use Java Script Object Notation (JSON) to log event information. Although it’s efficient and flexible, deriving information from JSON is […]