Author: Ian Meyers

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS The serverless Amazon Redshift Monitoring utility lets you gather important performance metrics from your Redshift cluster’s system tables and persists the results in Amazon CloudWatch. This serverless solution leverages AWS Lambda to schedule custom SQL queries and process the results. With this utility, you can use […]

NOTE: Amazon Redshift now supports creating an automatic snapshot schedule using the snapshot scheduler. For more information, please review this “What’s New” post. ———————————- Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data […]

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS Last year, we introduced the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) to simplify the development of applications that need to send data to Amazon Kinesis Streams. Many customers use aggregation, which allows you to send multiple records to a single Amazon Kinesis Streams record.  Although the […]

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS Amazon DynamoDB is a fast, flexible, and fully managed NoSQL database service that supports both document and key-value store models that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. In this post, we discuss a technique that can be used with DynamoDB to ensure virtually […]

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS With this new AWS Lambda function, it’s never been easier to get file data into Amazon Redshift. You simply push files into a variety of locations on Amazon S3 and have them automatically loaded into your Amazon Redshift clusters. Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Redshift […]

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS Introduction Node.js is a JavaScript framework for running high performance server-side applications based upon non-blocking I/O and an asynchronous, event-driven processing model. When customers need to process large volumes of complex data, Node.js offers a runtime that natively supports the JSON data structure. Languages such […]

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS Amazon Kinesis provides a scalable and highly available platform for ingesting data from thousands of clients. Once data is available on a Kinesis stream, you can build applications to process the data using the Kinesis Client Library (KCL). KCL provides a framework for managing many […]

NOTE: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service for delivering real-time streaming data to Amazon Redshift. For more information, please visit the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose documentation page, “Choosing Amazon Redshift for Your Destination.” February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New […]