AWS Architecture Blog
Category: Analytics
Field Notes: How to Enable Cross-Account Access for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Kinesis Client Library 2.x
Businesses today are dealing with vast amounts of real-time data they need to process and analyze to generate insights. Real-time delivery of data and insights enable businesses to quickly make decisions in response to sensor data from devices, clickstream events, user engagement, and infrastructure events, among many others. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams offers a managed […]
Hybrid Cloud Architectures Using Self-hosted Apache Kafka and AWS Glue
Using analytics to gain insights from a variety of datasets is key to successful transformation. There are many options to consider to realize the full value and potential of our data in a hybrid cloud infrastructure. Common practice is to route data produced from on-premises to a central repository or data lake. Here it can […]
Emerging Solutions for Operations Research on AWS
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Operations research (OR) uses mathematical and analytical tools to arrive at optimal solutions for complex business problems like workforce scheduling. The mathematical techniques used to solve these problems, such as linear programming and mixed-integer programming, require the use of optimization […]
Visualize AWS Security Hub Findings using Analytics and Business Intelligence Tools
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. To improve the security posture in your organization, you first must have a comprehensive view of your security, operations, and compliance data. AWS Security Hub gives you a thorough view of your security alerts and security posture across all your […]
Scaling Data Analytics Containers with Event-based Lambda Functions
The marketing industry collects and uses data from various stages of the customer journey. When they analyze this data, they establish metrics and develop actionable insights that are then used to invest in customers and generate revenue. If you’re a data scientist or developer in the marketing industry, you likely often use containers for services […]
Toyota Connected and AWS Design and Deliver Collision Assistance Application
This post was cowritten by Srikanth Kodali, Sr. IoT Data Architect at AWS, and Will Dombrowski, Sr. Data Engineer at Toyota Connected Toyota Connected North America (TC) is a technology/big data company that partners with Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor North America to develop products that aim to improve the driving experience for Toyota […]
Field Notes: How to Scale OpenTravel Messaging Architecture with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
The travel industry relies on OpenTravel messaging systems to collect and distribute travel data—like hotel inventory and pricing—to many independent ecommerce travel sites. These travel sites need immediate access to the most current hotel inventory and pricing data. This allows shoppers access to the available rooms at the right prices. Each time a room is […]
How to Accelerate Building a Lake House Architecture with AWS Glue
Customers are building databases, data warehouses, and data lake solutions in isolation from each other, each having its own separate data ingestion, storage, management, and governance layers. Often these disjointed efforts to build separate data stores end up creating data silos, data integration complexities, excessive data movement, and data consistency issues. These issues are preventing […]
Building a Data Pipeline for Tracking Sporting Events Using AWS Services
In an evolving world that is increasingly connected, data-centric, and fast-paced, the sports industry is no exception. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been helping customers in the sports industry gain real-time insights through analytics. You can re-invent and reimagine the fan experience by tracking sports actions and activities. In this blog post, we will highlight […]
Field Notes: Creating Custom Analytics Dashboards with FireEye Helix and Amazon QuickSight
FireEye Helix is a security operations platform that allows organizations to take control of any incident from detection to response. FireEye Helix detects security incidents by correlating logs and configuration settings from sources like VPC Flow Logs, AWS CloudTrail, and Security groups. In this blog post, we will discuss an architecture that allows you to […]









