AWS Big Data Blog

Category: AWS Glue

Melting the ice — How Natural Intelligence simplified a data lake migration to Apache Iceberg

Natural Intelligence (NI) is a world leader in multi-category marketplaces. In this blog post, NI shares their journey, the innovative solutions developed, and the key takeaways that can guide other organizations considering a similar path. This article details NI’s practical approach to this complex migration, focusing less on Apache Iceberg’s technical specifications, but rather on the real-world challenges and solutions encountered during the transition to Apache Iceberg, a challenge that many organizations are grappling with.

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse now supports attribute-based access control

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC) with AWS Lake Formation, using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and session tags to simplify data access, grant creation, and maintenance. In this post, we demonstrate how to get started with SageMaker Lakehouse with ABAC.

Accelerate your analytics with Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse is a unified, open, and secure data lakehouse that now seamlessly integrates with Amazon S3 Tables, the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support. In this post, we guide you how to use various analytics services using the integration of SageMaker Lakehouse with S3 Tables.

Build unified pipelines spanning multiple AWS accounts and Regions with Amazon MWAA

In this blog post, we demonstrate how to use Amazon MWAA for centralized orchestration, while distributing data processing and machine learning tasks across different AWS accounts and Regions for optimal performance and compliance.

Manage concurrent write conflicts in Apache Iceberg on the AWS Glue Data Catalog

This post demonstrates how to implement reliable concurrent write handling mechanisms in Iceberg tables. We will explore Iceberg’s concurrency model, examine common conflict scenarios, and provide practical implementation patterns of both automatic retry mechanisms and situations requiring custom conflict resolution logic for building resilient data pipelines. We will also cover the pattern with automatic compaction through AWS Glue Data Catalog table optimization.

Amazon Web Services named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. We were positioned in the Challengers Quadrant in 2023. This recognition, we feel, reflects our ongoing commitment to innovation and excellence in data integration, demonstrating our continued progress in providing comprehensive data management solutions.

How Open Universities Australia modernized their data platform and significantly reduced their ETL costs with AWS Cloud Development Kit and AWS Step Functions

At Open Universities Australia (OUA), we empower students to explore a vast array of degrees from renowned Australian universities, all delivered through online learning. In this post, we show you how we used AWS services to replace our existing third-party ETL tool, improving the team’s productivity and producing a significant reduction in our ETL operational costs.