Effective data lakes using AWS Lake Formation, Part 1: Getting started with governed tables

Thousands of customers are building their data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can use AWS Lake Formation to build your data lakes easily—in a matter of days as opposed to months. However, there are still some difficult challenges to address with your data lakes: Supporting streaming updates and deletes in your data lakes

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Create a custom data connector to Slack’s Member Analytics API in Amazon QuickSight with Amazon Athena Federated Query

Amazon QuickSight recently added support for Amazon Athena Federated Query , which allows you to query data in place from various data sources. With this capability, QuickSight can extend support to query additional data sources like Amazon CloudWatch Logs , Amazon DynamoDB , and Amazon DocumentDB (with Mongo DB compatibility) via their existing Amazon Athena data source.

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Querying a Vertica data source in Amazon Athena using the Athena Federated Query SDK

The ability to query data and perform ad hoc analysis across multiple platforms and data stores with a single tool brings immense value to the big data analytical arena. As organizations build out data lakes with increasing volumes of data, there is a growing need to combine that data with large amounts of data in other data stores.

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Data monetization and customer experience optimization using telco data assets: Part 2

In this post, I demonstrate how you can enable data analysts, scientists, and advanced business users to query data from Amazon Redshift or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) directly. I also demonstrate configuring a simple drag-and-drop interface for self-service analytics so you can prepare and publish insights based on enriched data stored in Amazon Redshift or Amazon S3 through Amazon QuickSight.

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