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Category: Amazon Athena

Query your data created on-premises using Amazon Athena and AWS Storage Gateway

In this blog post, I use this architecture to demonstrate the combined capabilities of Storage Gateway and Athena. AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage. The File Gateway configuration of the AWS Storage Gateway offers you a seamless way to connect to the cloud in order to store application data files and backup images as durable objects on Amazon S3 cloud storage.

Separate queries and managing costs using Amazon Athena workgroups

Amazon Athena is a serverless query engine for data on Amazon S3. Many customers use Athena to query application and service logs, schedule automated reports, and integrate with their applications, enabling new analytics-based capabilities. Different types of users rely on Athena, including business analysts, data scientists, security, and operations engineers. In this post, I show you how to use workgroups to separate workloads, control user access, and manage query usage and costs.

Detect fraudulent calls using Amazon QuickSight ML insights

The financial impact of fraud in any industry is massive. According to the Financial Times article Fraud Costs Telecoms Industry $17bn a Year (paid subscription required), fraud costs the telecommunications industry $17 billion in lost revenues every year. Fraudsters constantly look for new technologies and devise new techniques. This changes fraud patterns and makes detection […]

Trigger cross-region replication of pre-existing objects using Amazon S3 inventory, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Athena

In Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you can use cross-region replication (CRR) to copy objects automatically and asynchronously across buckets in different AWS Regions. CRR is a bucket-level configuration, and it can help you meet compliance requirements and minimize latency by keeping copies of your data in different Regions. CRR replicates all objects in […]

Easily query AWS service logs using Amazon Athena

In this post, we’re open-sourcing a Python library known as Athena Glue Service Logs (AGSlogger). This library has predefined templates for parsing and optimizing the most popular log formats. The library provides a mechanism for defining schemas, managing partitions, and transforming data within an extract, transform, load (ETL) job in AWS Glue. AWS Glue is a serverless data transformation and cataloging service. You can use this library in conjunction with AWS Glue ETL jobs to enable a common framework for processing log data.

Visualize over 200 years of global climate data using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

Climate Change continues to have a profound effect on our quality of life. As a result, the investigation into sustainability is growing. Researchers in both the public and private sector are planning for the future by studying recorded climate history and using climate forecast models. To help explain these concepts, this post introduces the Global […]

Create real-time clickstream sessions and run analytics with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, AWS Glue, and Amazon Athena

April 2024: The content of this post is no longer relevant and deprecated. August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Clickstream events are small pieces of data that are generated continuously with high speed […]

Our data lake story: How Woot.com built a serverless data lake on AWS

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. In this post, we talk about designing a cloud-native data warehouse as a replacement for our legacy data warehouse built on a relational database. At the beginning of the design process, the […]

Analyze and visualize nested JSON data with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Although structured data remains the backbone for many data platforms, increasingly unstructured or semi-structured data is used to enrich existing information or create new insights. Amazon Athena enables you to analyze a wide variety of data. This includes tabular data in CSV or Apache Parquet files, data […]