Category: Amazon Athena

Siemens is a global technology leader with more than 370,000 employees and 170 years of experience. To protect Siemens from cybercrime, the Siemens Cyber Defense Center (CDC) continuously monitors Siemens’ networks and assets. To handle the resulting enormous data load, the CDC built a next-generation threat detection and analysis platform called ARGOS. ARGOS is a […]

Many AWS customers use a multi-account strategy. A centralized AWS Glue Data Catalog is important to minimize the amount of administration related to sharing metadata across different accounts. This post introduces capability that allows Amazon Athena to query a centralized Data Catalog across different AWS accounts. Overview of solution In late 2019, AWS introduced the […]

This is a guest post by Floating Point Group. In their own words, “Floating Point Group is on a mission to bring institutional-grade trading services to the world of cryptocurrency.” The need and demand for financial infrastructure designed specifically for trading digital assets may not be obvious. There’s a rather pervasive narrative that these coins […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze the data stored in 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. You can reduce your per-query costs and get better performance by compressing, partitioning, […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in 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. This post details the two new preview features that you can start using today: connecting […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in 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 Athena has announced a public preview of a new feature that provides an easy […]

Organizations today use data stores that are the best fit for the applications they build. For example, for an organization building a social network, a graph database such as Amazon Neptune is likely the best fit when compared to a relational database. Similarly, for workloads that require flexible schema for fast iterations, Amazon DocumentDB (with […]

Amazon Athena recently added support for federated queries and user-defined functions (UDFs), both in Preview. See Query any data source with Amazon Athena’s new federated query for more details. Jornaya helps marketers intelligently connect consumers who are in the market for major life purchases such as homes, mortgages, cars, insurance, and education. Jornaya collects data […]

his post shows how to access and manage data in multiple accounts from a central AWS Lake Formation account. The walkthrough demonstrates a centralized catalog residing in the master Lake Formation account, with data residing in the different accounts. The post shows how to grant access permissions from the Lake Formation service to read, write and update the catalog and access data in different accounts.

This post shows how ironSource uses Upsolver to build, manage, and orchestrate its data lake with minimal coding and maintenance. We discuss why ironSource opted for a data lake architecture based on Amazon S3, how ironSource built the data lake using Upsolver, how to create outputs to analytic services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon ES, and Tablea, and the benefits of this solution.