AWS Big Data Blog
Migrate from Snowflake to Amazon Redshift using AWS Glue Python shell
As the most widely used cloud data warehouse, Amazon Redshift makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL (extract, transform, and load), business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data per day and power analytics workloads […]
Read MoreDisaster recovery considerations with Amazon EMR on Amazon EC2 for Spark workloads
Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning (ML) applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. Amazon EMR launches all nodes for a given cluster in the same Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Availability Zone […]
Read MoreBuild a high-performance, ACID compliant, evolving data lake using Apache Iceberg on Amazon EMR
Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning (ML) applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. Apache Iceberg is an open table format for huge analytic datasets. Table formats typically indicate the format and location of […]
Read MoreConfigure an automated email sync for federated SSO users to access Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud that supports identity federation in both Standard and Enterprise editions. Organizations are working towards centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on premises, third-party, and applications on AWS. Many organizations use identity providers […]
Read MoreAccelerate Amazon DynamoDB data access in AWS Glue jobs using the new AWS Glue DynamoDB Export connector
Modern data architectures encourage the integration of data lakes, data warehouses, and purpose-built data stores, enabling unified governance and easy data movement. With a modern data architecture on AWS, you can store data in a data lake and use a ring of purpose-built data services around the lake, allowing you to make decisions with speed […]
Read MoreStream change data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with AWS DMS
In this post, we discuss how to use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) native change data capture (CDC) capabilities to stream changes into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. AWS DMS is a cloud service that makes it easy to migrate relational databases, data warehouses, NoSQL databases, and other types of data stores. You can use […]
Read MoreCreate cross-account, custom Amazon Managed Grafana dashboards for Amazon Redshift
Amazon Managed Grafana recently announced a new data source plugin for Amazon Redshift, enabling you to query, visualize, and alert on your Amazon Redshift data from Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces. With the new Amazon Redshift data source, you can now create dashboards and alerts in your Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces to analyze your structured and […]
Read MoreUse the AWS Glue connector to read and write Apache Iceberg tables with ACID transactions and perform time travel
Nowadays, many customers have built their data lakes as the core of their data analytic systems. In a typical use case of data lakes, many concurrent queries run to retrieve consistent snapshots of business insights by aggregating query results. A large volume of data constantly comes from different data sources into the data lakes. There […]
Read MoreBuild an Apache Iceberg data lake using Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue
Most businesses store their critical data in a data lake, where you can bring data from various sources to a centralized storage. The data is processed by specialized big data compute engines, such as Amazon Athena for interactive queries, Amazon EMR for Apache Spark applications, Amazon SageMaker for machine learning, and Amazon QuickSight for data […]
Read MoreResize Amazon Redshift from DC2 to RA3 with minimal or no downtime
Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse that allows you to process exabytes of data across your data warehouse, operational database, and data lake using standard SQL. Amazon Redshift offers different node types like DC2 (dense compute) and RA3, which you can use for your different workloads and use cases. For more information about […]
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