Can AWS Lake Formation Take on Azure Data Lake?

Source: datacenterknowledge.com Amazon’s new service appears to beat Azure on storage costs, but that’s not the only consideration. Big Data by definition implies lots of data. For many applications the more data you have the better. The question companies have to answer is how best to store their data. Part of the answer depends on what they plan to do with it. Training a machine learning model, for example, in most cases requires the compute muscle doing the training to

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AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Lake Formation

Source: businesswire.com AWS Lake Formation makes it easy for customers to build secure data lakes in days instead of months Panasonic, Amgen, and Alcon among customers using AWS Lake Formation SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of AWS Lake Formation, a fully managed service that makes it much easier for customers to build, secure, and manage data lakes. AWS Lake Formation simplifies and automates many of the complex manual steps

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