Multicloud data lake analytics with Amazon Athena
Big Data Blog
The article discusses how to use Amazon Athena connectors to query data files residing across Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), and Amazon S3, enabling a unified data query layer and holistic view of data assets across multiple cloud stores.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview with a fictional company Oktank managing data across clouds
- Prerequisites and steps to configure sample datasets in Azure and GCP
- Deploying AWS infrastructure with CloudFormation including VPC, S3 buckets, Athena workgroups, IAM users
- Creating Athena connectors for Azure Synapse and GCS using AWS Lambda
- Creating Athena data sources for Azure and GCS connectors
- Querying federated data sources from Athena as different IAM users
- Using cost allocation tags for cost analysis across Athena, S3, Lambda
- Conclusion and additional resources
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