Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Glue Data Catalog views for Athena and Redshift. AWS Glue Data Catalog views are a new capability that allows customers to create, grant permissions on, and query multi-engine SQL… Article Source https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/aws-glue-data-catalog-views-athena-redshift/
Amazon Redshift enables you to efficiently query and retrieve structured and semi-structured data from open format files in Amazon S3 data lake without having to load the data into Amazon Redshift tables. Amazon Redshift extends SQL… Article Source https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/accelerate-amazon-redshift-data-lake-queries-with-column-level-statistics/
AWS Glue Studio now offers a new visual user experience for authoring data preparation transformations using its visual editor. This graphical interface allows users to create, run, and monitor data integration jobs within the AWS Glue ecosystem. The new data preparation interface in AWS Glue Studio provides a spreadsheet-style view for working with tabular data … Read more
AWS Glue Studio is announcing the general availability of data preparation creation in AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL. This new feature provides a no-code data prep user experience for business users and data analysts, allowing them to run data integration jobs at scale in AWS Glue for Spark. The visual data prep experience aims to … Read more
AWS Glue Data Catalog now offers column-level aggregation statistics for Apache Iceberg tables, enhancing query performance in Redshift Spectrum. Apache Iceberg is an open table format that supports ACID transactions on data lakes. Enhancements include time-travel, schema evolution, and hidden partitioning. The Data Catalog stores table metadata and supports Iceberg tables, enabling automatic compaction of … Read more
AWS has made an announcement regarding the general availability of AWS Glue Usage Profiles, a new feature that allows administrators to control the costs associated with their Glue jobs and Notebook sessions. This capability enables administrators to establish limits and controls on the resources utilized by different types of users. This means that administrators can … Read more
Google’s AI-generated overviews have been producing wildly inaccurate results, such as suggesting glue as a pizza topping, claiming rocks are edible, and promoting smoking during pregnancy as healthy. These results have been circulating on social media but are now being swiftly removed by Google in an effort to fix the issue. Google has been testing … Read more
Google has introduced a new experimental search function called “AI Overviews” for users of Chrome, Firefox, and the Google App Browser. This feature utilizes generative AI technology to provide summaries of search results, eliminating the need to click on individual links. For example, if a user searches for tips on keeping bananas fresher longer, AI … Read more
In today’s digital age, managing data from various sources can be challenging for organizations, leading to issues in data integration and governance. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that streamlines the process of discovering, preparing, moving, and integrating data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. Entity resolution is a crucial aspect of … Read more
Google’s new AI search feature is under fire for providing inaccurate and misleading answers to user queries, suggesting things like eating rocks and mixing glue with pizza cheese. The feature, called “AI Overviews,” was launched in the United States last week and became available to some users in the UK last month. While the tool … Read more