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Category: Analytics

Interact with Apache Iceberg tables using Amazon Athena and cross account fine-grained permissions using AWS Lake Formation

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 […]

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Manage users and group memberships on Amazon QuickSight using SCIM events generated in IAM Identity Center with Azure AD

Amazon QuickSight is cloud-native, scalable business intelligence (BI) service that supports identity federation. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows organizations to use the identities managed in their enterprise identity provider (IdP) and federate single sign-on (SSO) to QuickSight. As more organizations are building centralized user identity stores with all their applications, including on-premises apps, […]

Accelerating revenue growth with real-time analytics: Poshmark’s journey

This post was co-written by Mahesh Pasupuleti and Gaurav Shah from Poshmark. Poshmark is a leading social marketplace for new and secondhand styles for women, men, kids, pets, home, and more. By combining the human connection of physical shopping with the scale, ease, and selection benefits of Ecommerce, Poshmark makes buying and selling simple, social, […]

Introducing native support for Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg on AWS Glue for Apache Spark, Part 2: AWS Glue Studio Visual Editor

In the first post of this series, we described how AWS Glue for Apache Spark works with Apache Hudi, Linux Foundation Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg datasets tables using the native support of those data lake formats. This native support simplifies reading and writing your data for these data lake frameworks so you can more […]

Extend geospatial queries in Amazon Athena with UDFs and AWS Lambda

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 […]

Amazon QuickSight helps TalentReef empower its customers to make more informed hiring decisions

This post is co-written with Alexander Plumb, Product Manager at Mitratech. TalentReef, now part of Mitratech, is a talent management platform purpose-built for location-based, high-volume hiring. TalentReef was acquired by Mitratech in August 2022 with the goal to combine TalentReef’s best-in-class systems with Mitratech’s expertise, technology, and global platform to ensure their customers’ hiring needs […]

How SafetyCulture scales unpredictable dbt Cloud workloads in a cost-effective manner with Amazon Redshift

This post is co-written by Anish Moorjani, Data Engineer at SafetyCulture. SafetyCulture is a global technology company that puts the power of continuous improvement into everyone’s hands. Its operations platform unlocks the power of observation at scale, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice in driving quality, efficiency, and safety improvements. Amazon Redshift is a […]

How Infomedia built a serverless data pipeline with change data capture using AWS Glue and Apache Hudi

This is a guest post co-written with Gowtham Dandu from Infomedia. Infomedia Ltd (ASX:IFM) is a leading global provider of DaaS and SaaS solutions that empowers the data-driven automotive ecosystem. Infomedia’s solutions help OEMs, NSCs, dealerships and 3rd party partners manage the vehicle and customer lifecycle. They are used by over 250,000 industry professionals, across […]

Accelerate data insights with Elastic and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

This is a guest post co-written with Udayasimha Theepireddy from Elastic. Processing and analyzing log and Internet of Things (IoT) data can be challenging, especially when dealing with large volumes of real-time data. Elastic and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose are two powerful tools that can help make this process easier. For example, by using Kinesis […]

Role-based access control in Amazon OpenSearch Service via SAML integration with AWS IAM Identity Center

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it simple to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch clusters at scale in the AWS Cloud. AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) helps you securely create or connect your workforce identities and manage their access centrally across AWS accounts and applications. To build a […]