Getting Started with AWS Big Data — How to Query Data in S3 using Glue and Athena

Matthew Harper
Trimble Maps Engineering Blog
11 min readApr 14, 2020

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‘Big Data’ is a huge trend in technology today, and AWS has many offerings that allow you to perform complex data analyses. The goal of this article is to introduce some of the very basics of Big Data in AWS. There are many ways to store, query, and visualize data in AWS, but I’ll focus on just a single configuration that utilizes S3 (storage), Glue…

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