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Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena
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Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena

by Anthony Virtuoso, Mert Turkay Hocanin, Aaron Wishnick
November 2021
Beginner to intermediate
438 pages
10h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 14: Lake Formation – Advanced Topics

You've reached the final chapter in our journey through Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena. Some authors like to start each chapter with a thought-provoking quote. The pressure to find good, relevant quotes from well-known people was too much for us, so we opted not to employ that pattern until now. I recently came across a quote from Stephen King that does a great job distilling this chapter:

"Sooner or later, everything old is new."

– Stephen King

You see, many of Lake Formation's "new" features are a reimagining of well-known database technologies from the 70s and 80s but scaled up for modern data lakes. As a Lake Formation launch partner, Athena is often one of the first services to support ...

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