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Using Google BigQuery OMNI to Query Data In-place From AWS S3
The most modern mechanism for shifting your data from one cloud to another for analytics and insights might be to not move it at all

The facts of data analytics
If you’ve been following the trends around data and analytics for a few years now, you’ve probably come across one or more BI or data maturity curve graphs. You know the ones — they start with the least mature organisation dealing with static BI reports and being ‘reactive,’ and gradually ‘maturing’ towards proactive insights and a data-driven culture.
One moment, let’s see if I can find one.
(A few seconds of Google later…)
Ah, here we go!

There are plenty of variations on this theme of maturity, but they all share a common thread of moving from bits of data siloed all over the place towards a fully accessible and well-formed data warehouse or lake. Here, the data from all over your landscape is brought together and surfaced in a way that makes gathering insights simple and effective.