AWS Big Data Blog

Category: AWS Glue

Build an analytics pipeline that is resilient to Avro schema changes using Amazon Athena

This post demonstrates how to build a solution by combining Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for data storage, AWS Glue Data Catalog for schema management, and Amazon Athena for one-time querying. We’ll focus specifically on handling Avro-formatted data in partitioned S3 buckets, where schemas can change frequently while providing consistent query capabilities across all data regardless of schema versions.

Revenue NSW modernises analytics with AWS, enabling unified and scalable data management, processing, and access

Revenue NSW, Australia’s principal revenue management agency, successfully modernized its analytics infrastructure using AWS services. In this blog post, we show how the organization transformed its on-premises data environment into a unified, scalable cloud-based solution using Amazon Redshift, AWS Database Migration Service, Amazon AppFlow, and AWS Glue.

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Geospatial data lakes with Amazon Redshift

In this post, we review how to set up Redshift Serverless to use geospatial data contained within a data lake to enhance maps in ArcGIS Pro. This technique helps builders and GIS analysts use available datasets in data lakes and transform it in Amazon Redshift to further enrich the data before presenting it on a map.

How Stifel built a modern data platform using AWS Glue and an event-driven domain architecture

In this post, we show you how Stifel implemented a modern data platform using AWS services and open data standards, building an event-driven architecture for domain data products while centralizing the metadata to facilitate discovery and sharing of data products.