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New – Amazon Elasticsearch Service
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Elasticsearch is a real-time, distributed search and analytics engine that fits nicely into a cloud environment. It is document-oriented and does not require a schema to be defined up-front. It supports structured, unstructured, and time-series queries and serves as a […]
Read MoreAmazon EMR Release 4.1.0 – Spark 1.5.0, Hue 3.7.1, HDFS Encryption, Presto, Oozie, Zeppelin, Improved Resizing
My colleagues Jon Fritz and Abhishek Sinha are both Senior Product Managers on the EMR team. They wrote the guest post below to introduce you to the newest release of EMR and to tell you about new EMR cluster resizing functionality. — Jeff; Amazon EMR is a managed service that simplifies running and managing distributed […]
Read MoreCloudWatch Logs Subscription Consumer + Elasticsearch + Kibana Dashboards
Many of the things that I blog about lately seem to involve interesting combinations of two or more AWS services and today’s post is no exception. Before I dig in, I’d like to briefly introduce all of the services that I plan to name-drop later in this post. Some of this will be review material, […]
Read MoreNew – Apache Spark on Amazon EMR
My colleague Jon Fritz wrote the guest post below to introduce a powerful new feature for Amazon EMR. We updated it on May 16, 2017 in order to describe some new console features and to account for the availability of Spark 2.0. — Jeff; I’m happy to announce that Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark. […]
Read MoreAmazon Kinesis Update – Simplified Capture of Streaming Data
Amazon Kinesis is a managed service designed to handle real-time streaming of big data. It can accept any amount of data, from any number of sources, scaling up and down as needed (see my introductory post for more information on Kinesis). Developers can use the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) to simplify the implementation of apps […]
Read MoreNew – Amazon Cognito Streams
Amazon Cognito makes it easy for you to save user data such as app preferences in the AWS Cloud without writing any backend logic or managing any infrastructure. You can focus on creating a great app instead of worrying about creating server-side code to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync. Today we are […]
Read MoreAmazon Kinesis Update – Reduced Propagation Delay
Amazon Kinesis is at home in situations where data arrives in a continuous stream. It is real-time and elastic and you can use it to reliably deliver any amount of data to your mission-critical applications. Today we are making an important change to Kinesis. You can now retrieve records (data) immediately after a successful PutRecord […]
Read MoreAWS Expansion – WorkSpaces, Directory Service, ElastiCache, GovCloud, Kinesis, Traditional Chinese, More
We’ve increased the geographic footprint and international relevance of several AWS services this past month. Here’s a summary: Amazon WorkSpaces and AWS Directory Service are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region. AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon ElastiCache, and RDS integration with AWS CloudTrail are […]
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