AWS News Blog
Category: Analytics
Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available – Fast & Easy to Use Business Analytics for Big Data
After a preview period that included participants from over 1,500 AWS customers ranging from startups to global enterprises, I am happy to be able to announce that Amazon QuickSight is now generally available! When I invited you to join the preview last year, I wrote: In the past, Business Intelligence required an incredible amount of […]
Read MoreNew – Sending Metrics for Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) focuses on deliverability – getting email through to the intended recipients. In my launch blog post (Introducing the Amazon Simple Email Service), I noted that several factors influence delivery, including the level of trust that you have earned with multiple Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the number of complaints and […]
Read MoreAdditional At-Rest and In-Transit Encryption Options for Amazon EMR
Our customers use Amazon EMR (including Apache Hadoop and the full range of tools that make up the Apache Spark ecosystem) to handle many types of mission-critical big data use cases. For example: Yelp processes over a terabyte of log files and photos every day. Expedia processes streams of clickstream, user interaction, and supply data. […]
Read MoreStreaming Real-time Data into an S3 Data Lake at MeetMe
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In today’s guest post, Anton Slutsky of MeetMe describes the implementation process for their Data Lake. — Jeff; Anton Slutsky is an experienced information technologist with nearly two decades of experience in the field. He has an MS in Computer […]
Read MoreNew – Upload AWS Cost & Usage Reports to Redshift and QuickSight
Many AWS customers have been asking us for a way to programmatically analyze their Cost and Usage Reports (read New – AWS Cost and Usage Reports for Comprehensive and Customizable Reporting for more info). These customers are often using AWS to run multiple lines of business, making use of a wide variety of services, often […]
Read MoreAmazon Kinesis Analytics – Process Streaming Data in Real Time with SQL
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. As you may know, Amazon Kinesis greatly simplifies the process of working with real-time streaming data in the AWS Cloud. Instead of setting up and running your own processing and short-term storage infrastructure, you simply create a Kinesis Stream or […]
Read MoreAmazon EMR 5.0.0 – Major App Updates, UI Improvements, Better Debugging, and More
The Amazon EMR team has been cranking out new releases at a fast and furious pace! Here’s a quick recap of this year’s launches: EMR 4.7.0 – Updates to Apache Tez, Apache Phoenix, Presto, HBase, and Mahout (June). EMR 4.6.0 – HBase for realtime access to massive datasets (April). EMR 4.5.0 – Updates to Hadoop, […]
Read MoreAmazon EMR 4.7.0 – Apache Tez & Phoenix, Updates to Existing Apps
Amazon EMR allows you to quickly and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Since the 2009 launch, we have added many new features and support for an ever-increasing roster of applications from the Hadoop ecosystem. Here are a few of the additions that we have made this year: April – Support for Apache HBase 1.2 […]
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