Author: Andy Werth

Partners are a vital part of the AWS ecosystem, and AWS Partners have made important contributions to the AWS Big Data Blog. This month’s Partner Post Spotlight is on Attunity, who co-authored the post “Using Attunity CloudBeam at UMUC to Replicate Data to Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift.” Their post explains how UMUC used Attunity […]

Lots for big data enthusiasts in February on the AWS Big Data Blog. Take a look! Submitting User Applications with spark-submit Learn how to set spark-submit flags to control the memory and compute resources available to your application submitted to Spark running on EMR. Learn when to use the maximizeResourceAllocation configuration option and dynamic allocation […]

Lots for big data enthusiasts in January on the AWS Big Data Blog. Take a look! Running an External Zeppelin Instance using S3 Backed Notebooks with Spark on Amazon EMR Learn how to set up Zeppelin running “off-cluster” on a separate EC2 instance. You’ll  be able to submit Spark jobs to an EMR cluster directly […]

Lots for big data enthusiasts in December on the AWS Big Data Blog. Take a look! Top 10 Performance Tuning Techniques for Amazon Redshift “This post takes you through the most common issues that customers find as they adopt Amazon Redshift, and gives you concrete guidance on how to address each.” Migrating Metadata when Encrypting […]

AWS re:Invent is just a few days away! Big data is being used to transform businesses, increase efficiency, and drive innovation. The AWS Cloud has a comprehensive portfolio of big data and HPC services to accelerate and automate how you put data to work in your organization. In the Big Data & HPC track at […]