AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Dylan Qu
Dylan Qu is a Specialist Solutions Architect focused on Big Data & Analytics with AWS. He helps customers architect and build highly scalable, performant, and secure cloud-based solutions on AWS.
Simplify your ETL and ML pipelines using the Amazon Athena UNLOAD feature
Many organizations prefer SQL for data preparation because they already have developers for extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs and analysts preparing data for machine learning (ML) who understand and write SQL queries. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using […]
Ingest Salesforce data into Amazon S3 using the CData JDBC custom connector with AWS Glue
Organizations that successfully generate business value from their data will outperform their peers. Many AWS customers require a data storage and analytics solution that combines the prospect information stored in Salesforce, a popular and widely used customer relationship management (CRM) platform, with other structured and unstructured data in their data lake to innovate and build […]
Best practices for consuming Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using AWS Lambda
November 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Many organizations are processing and analyzing clickstream data in real time from customer-facing applications to look for new business opportunities and identify security incidents in real time. A common practice is to consolidate and enrich logs from applications and servers in real time to proactively […]
Event-driven refresh of SPICE datasets in Amazon QuickSight
Businesses are increasingly harnessing data to improve their business outcomes. To enable this transformation to a data-driven business, customers are bringing together data from structured and unstructured sources into a data lake. Then they use business intelligence (BI) tools, such as Amazon QuickSight, to unlock insights from this data. To provide fast access to datasets, […]