Tag: Amazon Athena

July 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Most systems use Java Script Object Notation (JSON) to log event information. Although it’s efficient and flexible, deriving information from JSON is […]

For customers who use Hive external tables on Amazon EMR, or any flavor of Hadoop, a key challenge is how to effectively migrate an existing Hive metastore to Amazon Athena, an interactive query service that directly analyzes data stored in Amazon S3. With Athena, there are no clusters to manage and tune, and no infrastructure to […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Ben Snively is a Solutions Architect with AWS Speed and agility are essential with today’s analytics tools. The quicker you can get from idea to first results, the more you can experiment […]

Aaron Friedman is a Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services The genomics industry is in the midst of a data explosion. Due to the rapid drop in the cost to sequence genomes, genomics is now central to many medical advances. When your genome is sequenced and analyzed, raw sequencing files are […]

April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly from Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage and you can start analyzing your data immediately. You don’t even need to […]