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Now available: New AWS program supporting nonprofit donor and member engagement

As one-time donations increasingly become the norm, nonprofit development teams are challenged to think outside-the-box to attract, retain, and communicate with their valuable supporters. Nonprofit organizations can use data to inform an enhanced engagement strategy, but many are challenged to unlock the full value of that data affordably and at scale. To help nonprofits use the cloud to build innovative fundraising and member engagement solutions, we are launching a new program – AWS TechAction.

How to partition your geospatial data lake for analysis with HAQM Redshift

Data lakes are becoming increasingly common in many different workloads, and geospatial is no exception. In 2021, HAQM Web Services (AWS) announced geography and geohash support on HAQM Redshift, so geospatial analysts have the capability to quickly and efficiently query geohashed vector data in HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3). In this blog post, I walk through how to use geohashing with HAQM Redshift partitioning for quick and efficient geospatial data access, analysis, and transformation in your data lake.