AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Amazon S3 Glacier

Working with timestamp with time zone in your Amazon S3-based data lake

With a data lake built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you can use the purpose-built analytics services for a range of use cases, from analyzing petabyte-scale datasets to querying the metadata of a single object. AWS analytics services support open file formats such as Parquet, ORC, JSON, Avro, CSV, and more, so it’s […]

Keeping your data lake clean and compliant with Amazon Athena

June 2025: This post has been reviewed for accuracy and the following updates have been made: added new function to retrieve SQL query in the Lambda code; upgraded Python’s run time and version of sqlparse in the Lambda deployment package; added and removed actions in the Lambda policy; updated the CloudFormation template to reflect policy […]