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June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. IMM (Institutional Money Market) is a mutual fund that invests in highly liquid instruments, cash, and cash equivalents. IMM funds are large financial intermediaries that are crucial to financial stability in the US. Due to its criticality, IMM funds are highly regulated under the security […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and deliver insights to everyone in your organization or even with your customers and partners. You can make your data come to life with rich interactive charts and create beautiful dashboards to be shared with thousands of users, either […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. In recent evolution in data lake technologies, it became popular to bring ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) transactions on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can achieve that by introducing open-source data lake formats such as Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake. […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and deliver insights to everyone in your organization. You can make your data come to life with rich interactive charts and create beautiful dashboards to share with thousands of users, either directly within a QuickSight application, or embedded in […]

According to an article in MIT Sloan Management Review, 9 out of 10 companies believe their industry will be digitally disrupted. In order to fuel the digital disruption, companies are eager to gather as much data as possible. Given the importance of this new asset, lawmakers are keen to protect the privacy of individuals and […]

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. Amazon Redshift enables you to use your data to acquire new insights for your business and customers while keeping costs low. Together with price-performance, […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Glue supports native integration with Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg. Refer to Introducing native support for Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg on AWS Glue for Apache Spark, Part 2: AWS Glue Studio Visual Editor to learn more. Transactional data lake […]

August 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Glue supports native integration with Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg. Refer to Introducing native support for Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg on AWS Glue for Apache Spark, Part 2: AWS Glue Studio Visual Editor to learn more. Cloud data lakes […]

Jan 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Modern data architectures encourage the integration of data lakes, data warehouses, and purpose-built data stores, enabling unified governance and easy data movement. With a modern data architecture on AWS, you can store data in a data lake and use a ring of purpose-built data services […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Glue has become a popular option for integrating data from disparate data sources due to its ability to integrate large volumes of data using distributed data processing frameworks. Many customers use AWS Glue to build data lakes and data warehouses. Data engineers who prefer […]