Yggdrasil Migrates BigQuery To AWS Lakehouse
Yggdrasil Gaming migrated from Google BigQuery to an Apache Iceberg-based lakehouse on AWS, working with GOStack and AWS to reduce multi-cloud complexity and support its Game in a Box launch. The new architecture uses Amazon S3, Athena, EMR, Glue, Lake Formation, EKS, and Lambda to enable real-time ingestion, dbt transformations, ACID Iceberg tables, and estimated analytics cost reductions of 30–50%. The migration enables scalable analytics, ML use cases, and centralized governance.
Key Points
- 1Migrated from BigQuery to Apache Iceberg lakehouse on AWS using S3, Athena, EMR.
- 2Reduced multi-cloud complexity and cut analytics costs by an estimated 30–50% for bursty workloads.
- 3Enables real-time ingestion, ACID transactions, dbt/Athena transformations, and centralized governance for ML.
Scoring Rationale
Detailed, credible migration with measurable 30–50% savings; limited generalizability as a single-company, partner-led case study.
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