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Adam Book has been programming since the age of six and has been constantly tapped by founders and CEOs as one of the pillars to start their online or cloud businesses. Adam has developed applications, and websites. He's been involved in cloud computing and datacenter transformation professionally since 1996 focusing on bringing the benefits of cloud computing to his clients. He's led technology teams in transformative changes such as the shift to programming in sprints, with Agile formats. Adam is a cloud evangelist with a track record of migrating thousands of applications to the cloud and guiding businesses in understanding cloud economics to create use cases and identify operating model gaps. He has been certified on AWS since 2014.
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Stuart Scott is the AWS content lead at Cloud Academy where he has created over 40 courses reaching tens of thousands of students. His content focuses heavily on cloud security and compliance, specifically on how to implement and configure AWS services to protect, monitor and secure customer data in an AWS environment. He has written numerous cloud security blogs Cloud Academy and other AWS advanced technology partners. He has taken part in a series of cloud security webinars to share his knowledge and experience within the industry to help those looking to implement a secure and trusted environment. In January 2016 Stuart was awarded 'Expert of the Year' from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
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Running Queries with Amazon Athena

With so much valuable data within CloudTrail and other logs, finding effective ways to query the data for specific entries is always a top priority. The Amazon Athena service makes running ad hoc queries on extensive datasets much more straightforward. When discussing storing logs on the S3 service earlier in the chapter, one of the feature’s shortcomings was the ability to query the logs. This gap in capabilities is filled by using the Amazon Athena service.

Amazon Athena is a serverless service that allows you to quickly analyze data stored within Amazon S3, such as your CloudTrail logs. Athena does this by using an interactive query service and letting you write your queries using standard Structured Query Language (SQL). As a result, it is an efficient service to help you scan massive datasets.

The following are some key facts to understand about Amazon Athena:

  • Athena separates storage from compute by utilizing Amazon S3 for...
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AWS Certified Security – Specialty (SCS-C02) Exam Guide - Second Edition
Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837633982

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Adam Book

Adam Book has been programming since the age of six and has been constantly tapped by founders and CEOs as one of the pillars to start their online or cloud businesses. Adam has developed applications, and websites. He's been involved in cloud computing and datacenter transformation professionally since 1996 focusing on bringing the benefits of cloud computing to his clients. He's led technology teams in transformative changes such as the shift to programming in sprints, with Agile formats. Adam is a cloud evangelist with a track record of migrating thousands of applications to the cloud and guiding businesses in understanding cloud economics to create use cases and identify operating model gaps. He has been certified on AWS since 2014.
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Stuart Scott

Stuart Scott is the AWS content lead at Cloud Academy where he has created over 40 courses reaching tens of thousands of students. His content focuses heavily on cloud security and compliance, specifically on how to implement and configure AWS services to protect, monitor and secure customer data in an AWS environment. He has written numerous cloud security blogs Cloud Academy and other AWS advanced technology partners. He has taken part in a series of cloud security webinars to share his knowledge and experience within the industry to help those looking to implement a secure and trusted environment. In January 2016 Stuart was awarded 'Expert of the Year' from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
Read more about Stuart Scott