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Category: Amazon Athena
Analyze Amazon Ion datasets using Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Amazon Ion is a richly typed, self-describing, hierarchical data serialization format […]
Read MoreSimplify your ETL and ML pipelines using the Amazon Athena UNLOAD feature
Many organizations prefer SQL for data preparation because they already have developers for extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs and analysts preparing data for machine learning (ML) who understand and write SQL queries. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using […]
Read MoreQuery 10 new data sources with Amazon Athena
When we first launched Amazon Athena, our mission was to make it simple to query data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Athena customers found it easy to get started and develop analytics on petabyte-scale data lakes, but told us they needed to join their Amazon S3 data with data stored elsewhere. We […]
Read MoreEnhance analytics with Google Trends data using AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight
In today’s market, business success often lies in the ability to glean accurate insights and predictions from data. However, data scientists and analysts often find that the data they have at their disposal isn’t enough to help them make accurate predictions for their use cases. A variety of factors might alter an outcome and should […]
Read MoreImprove reusability and security using Amazon Athena parameterized queries
Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL, and you only pay for the amount of data scanned by your queries. If you use SQL to analyze your business on a daily basis, you may find yourself repeatedly […]
Read MoreHow the Georgia Data Analytics Center built a cloud analytics solution from scratch with the AWS Data Lab
This is a guest post by Kanti Chalasani, Division Director at Georgia Data Analytics Center (GDAC). GDAC is housed within the Georgia Office of Planning and Budget to facilitate governed data sharing between various state agencies and departments. The Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) established the Georgia Data Analytics Center (GDAC) with the intent […]
Read MoreAudit AWS service events with Amazon EventBridge and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to build event-driven applications at scale using events generated from your applications, integrated software as a service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services. Many AWS services generate EventBridge events. When an AWS service in your account emits an event, it goes to your account’s default […]
Read MoreExtract ServiceNow data using AWS Glue Studio in an Amazon S3 data lake and analyze using Amazon Athena
Many different cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) offerings are available in AWS. ServiceNow is one of the common cloud-based workflow automation platforms widely used by AWS customers. In the past few years, we saw a lot of customers who wanted to extract and integrate data from IT service management (ITSM) tools like ServiceNow for […]
Read MoreQuery cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalogs using Amazon Athena
Many AWS customers rely on a multi-account strategy to scale their organization and better manage their data lake across different projects or lines of business. The AWS Glue Data Catalog contains references to data used as sources and targets of your extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs in AWS Glue. Using a centralized Data Catalog […]
Read MoreRun queries 3x faster with up to 70% cost savings on the latest Amazon Athena engine
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. In November 2020, Athena announced the General Availability of the V2 […]
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