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New: Server-Side Encryption for Amazon Kinesis Streams
In this age of smart homes, big data, IoT devices, mobile phones, social networks, chatbots, and game consoles, streaming data scenarios are everywhere. Amazon Kinesis Streams enables you to build custom applications that can capture, process, analyze, and store terabytes of data per hour from thousands of streaming data sources. Since Amazon Kinesis Streams allows […]
Read MoreLaunch: Amazon Athena adds support for Querying Encrypted Data
In November of last year, we brought a service to the market that we hoped would be a major step toward helping those who have the need to securely access and examine massive amounts of data on a daily basis. This service is none other than Amazon Athena which I think of as a managed […]
Read MoreNew – Amazon EMR Instance Fleets
Today we’re excited to introduce a new feature for Amazon EMR clusters called instance fleets. Instance fleets gives you a wider variety of options and intelligence around instance provisioning. You can now provide a list of up to 5 instance types with corresponding weighted capacities and spot bid prices (including spot blocks)! EMR will automatically provision […]
Read MoreAmazon Elasticsearch Service support for Elasticsearch 5.1
The Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that provides easier deployment, operation, and scale for the Elasticsearch open-source search and analytics engine. We are excited to announce that Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch 5.1 and Kibana 5.1. Elasticsearch 5 comes with a ton of new features and enhancements that customers can now […]
Read MoreNew – Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition
When I first wrote about Amazon QuickSight in 2015 (Amazon QuickSight – Fast & Easy to Use Business Intelligence for Big Data at 1/10th the Cost of Traditional Solutions), I mentioned that we would make the service available in Standard and Enterprise Editions. Enterprise Edition We launched the Standard Edition of Amazon QuickSight last month. […]
Read MoreAmazon Kinesis- Setting up a Streaming Data Pipeline
Ray Zhu from the Amazon Kinesis team wrote this great post about how to set up a streaming data pipeline. He carefully shows you step by step how he set it all up and how you can do it too. -Ana Consumer demand for better experiences is ever increasing today. Companies across different industry […]
Read MoreAmazon Athena – Interactive SQL Queries for Data in Amazon S3
The amount of data that we all have to deal with grows every day (I still keep a floppy disk or two around in order to remind myself that 1.44 MB once seemed like a lot of storage). These days, many people routinely process and query data in structured or semi-structured files at petabyte scale. […]
Read MoreHuman Longevity, Inc. – Changing Medicine Through Genomics Research
Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) is at the forefront of genomics research and wants to build the world’s largest database of human genomes along with related phenotype and clinical data, all in support of preventive healthcare. In today’s guest post, Yaron Turpaz, Bryan Coon, and Ashley Van Zeeland talk about how they are using AWS to […]
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