AWS Big Data Blog

Adoption of data lakes and the data mesh framework emerges as a powerful approach. By decentralizing data ownership and distribution, enterprises can break down silos and enable seamless data sharing. In this post, we discuss how to choose the right tool for building an enterprise data platform and enabling data sharing, collaboration and access within your organization and with third-party providers. We address three business use cases using AWS Glue, AWS Data Exchange, AWS Clean Rooms, and Amazon DataZone through three different use cases.

In this post, we share the journey of a multi-national financial credit reporting company, including the hurdles they faced, and why they went with Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines to make their log management smoother.

In this post, we walk you through how to configure service provider-initiated authentication for OpenSearch Dashboards by using OpenSearch Service and Keycloak. We also discuss how to set up users, groups, and roles in Keycloak and configure their access to OpenSearch Dashboards.

We’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, which enables you to run high-performance analytics on your DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with little to no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. As data is written into a DynamoDB table, it’s seamlessly made available in Amazon Redshift, eliminating the need to build and maintain complex data pipelines.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the official Amazon OpenSearch Service YouTube channel—a comprehensive resource for anyone looking to master Amazon OpenSearch Service. Whether you’re just getting started with searches , vectors, analytics, or you’re looking to optimize large-scale implementations, our channel can be your go-to resource to help you unlock the full potential of OpenSearch Service.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL is a data stream processing engine that helps you run your own SQL code against streaming sources to perform time series analytics, feed real-time dashboards, and create real-time metrics. AWS has made the decision to discontinue Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL, effective January 27, 2026. In this post, we explain why we plan to end support for Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL, alternative AWS offerings, and how to migrate your SQL queries and workloads.

In this post, we demonstrate the critical role of metadata in text-to-SQL generation through an example implemented for Amazon Athena using Amazon Bedrock. We discuss the challenges in maintaining the metadata as well as ways to overcome those challenges and enrich the metadata.

Starting with the Amazon EMR 7.2 release, Amazon EMR on EC2 introduced a new feature called Application Master (AM) label awareness, which allows users to enable YARN node labels to allocate the AM containers within On-Demand nodes only. In this post, we explore the key features and use cases where this new functionality can provide significant benefits, enabling cluster administrators to achieve optimal resource utilization, improved application reliability, and cost-efficiency in your EMR on EC2 clusters.

This post provides a detailed walkthrough about how to efficiently capture and manage manual snapshots in OpenSearch Service. It covers the essential steps for taking snapshots of your data, implementing safe transfer across different AWS Regions and accounts, and restoring them in a new domain. This guide is designed to help you maintain data integrity and continuity while navigating complex multi-Region and multi-account environments in OpenSearch Service.

Amazon Redshift now enables the secure sharing of data lake tables—also known as external tables or Amazon Redshift Spectrum tables—that are managed in the AWS Glue Data Catalog, as well as Redshift views referencing those data lake tables. By using granular access controls, data sharing in Amazon Redshift helps data owners maintain tight governance over who can access the shared information. In this post, we explore powerful use cases that demonstrate how you can enhance cross-team and cross-organizational collaboration, reduce overhead, and unlock new insights by using this innovative data sharing functionality.