AWS Big Data Blog

This is a guest post by Joseph Landucci from BWH Hotels. In their own words, “BWH Hotels is a leading, global hospitality enterprise comprised of three hotel companies, including WorldHotels, Best Western Hotels & Resorts and SureStay Hotels. Our mission is to deliver trusted guest experiences, drive hotel success and foster a caring, inclusive culture that respects […]

Amazon Redshift is a widely used, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytic workloads. Customers are looking for tools that make it easier to migrate from other data warehouses, such as Google BigQuery, to Amazon Redshift to […]

Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over data streams. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink is a fully managed service that enables you to use an Apache Flink application to process streaming data. The Deep Java Library (DJL) is an open-source, high-level, engine-agnostic Java framework for deep learning. […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully open-source search and analytics engine that securely unlocks real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data for use cases like recommendation engines, ecommerce sites, and catalog search. To be successful in your business, you need your systems to be highly available and performant, minimizing downtime and avoiding […]

This is a guest post by Brian Kasen and Rebecca McAlpine from Trakstar, now a part of Mitratech. Trakstar, now a part of Mitratech, is a human resources (HR) software company that serves customers from small businesses and educational institutions to large enterprises, globally. Trakstar supercharges employee performance around pivotal moments in talent development. Our […]

Customers have been using data warehousing solutions to perform their traditional analytics tasks. Recently, data lakes have gained lot of traction to become the foundation for analytical solutions, because they come with benefits such as scalability, fault tolerance, and support for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets. Data lakes are not transactional by default; however, there […]

Data transformation plays a pivotal role in providing the necessary data insights for businesses in any organization, small and large. To gain these insights, customers often perform ETL (extract, transform, and load) jobs from their source systems and output an enriched dataset. Many organizations today are using AWS Glue to build ETL pipelines that bring data […]

This is a guest post by Cynthia Valeriano, Jaime Olivares, and Guillermo Puelles from DeFontana. Defontana develops fully cloud-based business applications for the administration and management of companies. Based in Santiago, Chile, with operations in Peru, Mexico, and most recently Colombia, our main product is a 100% cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that has […]

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for large datasets in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and provides fast query performance over large tables, atomic commits, concurrent writes, and SQL-compatible table evolution. When you build your transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg to solve your functional use cases, you need to focus on operational […]

Detecting anomalies in real time from high-throughput streams is key for informing on timely decisions in order to adapt and respond to unexpected scenarios. Stream processing frameworks such as Apache Flink empower users to design systems that can ingest and process continuous flows of data at scale. In this post, we present a streaming time […]