Category: Amazon Athena

This post was co-written with Alcuin Weidus, Principal Architect from GE Aviation. GE Aviation, an operating unit of GE, is a world-leading provider of jet and turboprop engines, as well as integrated systems for commercial, military, business, and general aviation aircraft. GE Aviation has a global service network to support these offerings. From the turbosupercharger […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive serverless query service to query data from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in standard SQL. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed, open-source, distributed search and analytics suite derived from Elasticsearch, allowing you to run OpenSearch Service or Elasticsearch clusters at scale without having to manage hardware provisioning, software […]

Microsoft SharePoint is a document management system for storing files, organizing documents, and sharing and editing documents in collaboration with others. Your organization may want to ingest SharePoint data into your data lake, combine the SharePoint data with other data that’s available in the data lake, and use it for reporting and analytics purposes. AWS […]

Nearly all businesses today require some form of data analytics processing, from auditing user access to generating sales reports. For all your analytics needs, the Data Analytics Lens for AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive guidance to help you assess your workloads and identify best practices aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easier to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Cloud operation teams can use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) federation to centrally manage access to Athena. This simplifies administration by allowing a governing team to control user access […]

As organizations embark on their data modernization journey, big data analytics and machine learning (ML) use cases are becoming even more integral parts of business. The ease for data preparation and seamless integration with third-party data sources is of paramount importance in order to gain insights quickly and make critical business decisions faster. AWS Glue […]

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) is the process of reading source data, applying transformation rules to this data, and loading it into the target structures. ETL is performed for various reasons. Sometimes ETL helps align source data to target data structures, whereas other times ETL is done to derive business value by cleansing, standardizing, combining, […]

This blog post was last reviewed and updated May, 2022 to include AWS Lake Formation resource sharing model. Many AWS customers use a multi-account strategy to host applications for different departments within the same company. However, you might deploy services like Amazon QuickSight using a single-account approach, which raises challenges when you need to use […]

Companies use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for its flexibility, durability, scalability, and ability to perform many things besides storing data. This has led to an exponential rise in the usage of S3 buckets across numerous AWS Regions, across tens or even hundreds of AWS accounts. To optimize costs and analyze security posture, Amazon […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. MEDHOST has been providing products and services to healthcare facilities of all types and sizes for over 35 years. Today, more than 1,000 healthcare facilities are partnering with MEDHOST and enhancing their […]