Category: Amazon Athena

In today’s digital world, data is generated by a large number of disparate sources and growing at an exponential rate. Companies are faced with the daunting task of ingesting all this data, cleansing it, and using it to provide outstanding customer experience. Typically, companies ingest data from multiple sources into their data lake to derive […]

This blog post is co-written with Ori Nakar from Imperva. Imperva Cloud WAF protects hundreds of thousands of websites and blocks billions of security events every day. Events and many other security data types are stored in Imperva’s Threat Research Multi-Region data lake. Imperva harnesses data to improve their business outcomes. To enable this transformation […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and data sources residing in AWS, on-premises, or other cloud systems using SQL or Python. Athena is built on open-source Trino and Presto engines, and Apache Spark frameworks, with no provisioning or configuration effort […]

This is a guest blog post co-written with Sumesh M R from Cargotec and Tero Karttunen from Knowit Finland. Cargotec (Nasdaq Helsinki: CGCBV) is a Finnish company that specializes in cargo handling solutions and services. They are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, and operates globally in over 100 countries. With its leading cargo handling solutions and […]

This is a guest post co-written with Jonatan Selsing and Moses Arthur from Novo Nordisk. This is the second post of a three-part series detailing how Novo Nordisk, a large pharmaceutical enterprise, partnered with AWS Professional Services to build a scalable and secure data and analytics platform. The first post of this series describes the […]

Amazon Athena supports the MERGE command on Apache Iceberg tables, which allows you to perform inserts, updates, and deletes in your data lake at scale using familiar SQL statements that are compliant with ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable). Apache Iceberg is an open table format for data lakes that manages large collections of files as […]

Building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides numerous benefits for an organization. It allows you to access diverse data sources, build business intelligence dashboards, build AI and machine learning (ML) models to provide customized customer experiences, and accelerate the curation of new datasets for consumption by adopting a modern data […]

This is a guest post written by Ahmed Saef Zamzam and Geetha Anne from Confluent. Businesses are using real-time data streams to gain insights into their company’s performance and make informed, data-driven decisions faster. As real-time data has become essential for businesses, a growing number of companies are adapting their data strategy to focus on […]

We recently announced support for AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control policies in Amazon Athena queries for data stored in any supported file format using table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi and Apache Hive. AWS Lake Formation allows you to define and enforce database, table, and column-level access policies to query Iceberg tables […]

Amazon Athena is a serverless and interactive query service that allows you to easily analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and 25-plus data sources, including on-premises data sources or other cloud systems using SQL or Python. Athena built-in capabilities include querying for geospatial data; for example, you can count the number of […]