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Expanding data analysis and visualization options: Amazon DataZone now integrates with Tableau, Power BI, and more

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication support through the  Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more. This integration empowers data users to access and analyze governed data within Amazon DataZone using familiar tools, boosting both productivity and flexibility.

Introducing simplified interaction with the Airflow REST API in Amazon MWAA

Today, we are excited to announce an enhancement to the Amazon MWAA integration with the Airflow REST API. This improvement streamlines the ability to access and manage your Airflow environments and their integration with external systems, and allows you to interact with your workflows programmatically. The Airflow REST API facilitates a wide range of use cases, from centralizing and automating administrative tasks to building event-driven, data-aware data pipelines. In this post, we discuss the enhancement and present several use cases that the enhancement unlocks for your Amazon MWAA environment.

Amazon DataZone introduces OpenLineage-compatible data lineage visualization in preview

We are excited to announce the preview of API-driven, OpenLineage-compatible data lineage in Amazon DataZone to help you capture, store, and visualize lineage of data movement and transformations of data assets on Amazon DataZone. With the Amazon DataZone OpenLineage-compatible API, domain administrators and data producers can capture and store lineage events beyond what is available […]

Enhance data security with fine-grained access controls in Amazon DataZone

Fine-grained access control is a crucial aspect of data security for modern data lakes and data warehouses. As organizations handle vast amounts of data across multiple data sources, the need to manage sensitive information has become increasingly important. Making sure the right people have access to the right data, without exposing sensitive information to unauthorized […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service search enhancements: 2023 roundup

What users expect from search engines has evolved over the years. Just returning lexically relevant results quickly is no longer enough for most users. Now users seek methods that allow them to get even more relevant results through semantic understanding or even search through image visual similarities instead of textual search of metadata. Amazon OpenSearch […]