Category: Amazon Athena

Grafana is a popular open-source analytics platform that you can employ to create, explore, and share your data through flexible dashboards. Its use cases include application and IoT device monitoring, and visualization of operational and business data, among others. You can create your dashboard with your own datasets or publicly available datasets related to your […]

Tens of thousands of AWS customers choose Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as their data lake to run big data analytics, interactive queries, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications to gain business insights from their data. On top of these data lakes, you can use AWS Lake Formation to […]

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Amazon Athena now provides you more flexibility to use parameterized queries, and we recommend you use them as the best practice for your Athena queries moving forward so you benefit from the security, reusability, and simplicity they offer. In a previous post, Improve reusability and security using Amazon Athena parameterized queries, we explained how parameterized […]

Most businesses store their critical data in a data lake, where you can bring data from various sources to a centralized storage. The data is processed by specialized big data compute engines, such as Amazon Athena for interactive queries, Amazon EMR for Apache Spark applications, Amazon SageMaker for machine learning, and Amazon QuickSight for data […]

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 2019, Athena added support for federated queries to run SQL […]

Amazon QuickSight is a serverless business intelligence (BI) service used by organizations of any size to make better data-driven decisions. QuickSight dashboards can also be embedded into SaaS apps and web portals to provide interactive dashboards, natural language query or data analysis capabilities to app users seamlessly. The QuickSight Demo Central contains many dashboards, feature showcase […]

Do you want to reduce stockouts at stores? Do you want to improve order delivery timelines? Do you want to provide your customers with accurate product availability, down to the millisecond? A retail operational data lake can help you transform the customer experience by providing deeper insights into a variety of operational aspects of your […]

In this post, you will learn how to use Amazon Athena Federated Query to connect a MongoDB database to Amazon QuickSight in order to build dashboards and visualizations. Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service, based on Presto, that provides full ANSI SQL support to query a variety of standard data formats, including CSV, […]

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 […]