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Published inAug 2023
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Behram Irani
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Behram Irani

Behram Irani is currently a technology leader with Amazon Web Services (AWS) specializing in data, analytics and AI/ML. He has spent over 18 years in the tech industry helping organizations, from start-ups to large-scale enterprises, modernize their data platforms. In the last 6 years working at AWS, Behram has been a thought leader in the data, analytics and AI/ML space; publishing multiple papers and leading the digital transformation efforts for many organizations across the globe. Behram has completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune and has an MBA degree from the University of Florida.
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Analytics using Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is a serverless service that allows anyone to interactively query data in an S3 data lake using American National Standards Institute (ANSI) SQL. Athena is integrated with the Glue Data Catalog, which means that as soon as the metadata about the data is captured in the catalog, Athena is able to view and query those tables without any additional setup.

With no infrastructure to manage, along with direct out-of-the-box integration with Glue Data Catalog, this makes Athena a very popular service for multiple personas in the organization for interactive and ad hoc analytics. And being a serverless service, the pricing model of the service, 5 dollars per terabyte of data scanned, is also very appealing to organizations. With the correct optimization techniques, you can effectively roll out Athena as the service of choice throughout your organization for all types of interactive analytics use cases, for querying the data stored in the S3 data...

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Behram Irani

Behram Irani is currently a technology leader with Amazon Web Services (AWS) specializing in data, analytics and AI/ML. He has spent over 18 years in the tech industry helping organizations, from start-ups to large-scale enterprises, modernize their data platforms. In the last 6 years working at AWS, Behram has been a thought leader in the data, analytics and AI/ML space; publishing multiple papers and leading the digital transformation efforts for many organizations across the globe. Behram has completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune and has an MBA degree from the University of Florida.
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