AWS Athena adds geospatial functionality
AWS recently dropped Athena engine version 3, and it came withGeospatial. .
What does this mean for you?
If you want to be able to do big data lake queries against location-based data(lat,long), now you can.
Let’s say you were tracking who searches your platform, and you stored the location of the search(either from IP, Browser Location, or Mobile Location).
You can now pipe all that through Kinesis into Glue for cheap long-term storage.
Then, when you are ready, you can discover trends and patterns at scale using Athena/Glue instead of blasting your source of truth live DB and slowing down traffic for the people browsing your website.
The new version also includes a bunch of nice quality of life features for date and number manipulation that I am sure will come in handy.
Not sure what to do with all the data you have collected over the years?
I would be happy to help with that, it's what I do for a living.