Author: Matt Yanchyshyn

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Sr. Manager for AWS Solutions Architecture AWS offers a number of events during the year such as our annual AWS re:Invent conference, the AWS Summit series, the AWS Pop-up Loft, and a variety of roadshows. All of these provide opportunities for AWS customers to attend talks focused on big data and […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS I now have a collection of napkins from customer dinners with various AWS technology solutions sketched on them.  This particular napkin is an Amazon DynamoDB schema design for a customer interested in using the new JSON document support to import a bunch of JSON files into […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS During the keynote on Wednesday we announced Amazon RDS for Aurora, a new high-performance and cost-effective relational database.  I heard from multiple AWS re:Invent attendees that they’re really excited about how AWS is innovating in the data storage space, and from a big data perspective it […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS Today hundreds of AWS customers participated in bootcamps at re:Invent, including three sessions in the big data space: Store, Manage, and Analyze Big Data in the Cloud, Real Time Data Processing and Analysis with Amazon Redshift and Amazon Kinesis and Building High-Performance Applications on DynamoDB.  Chris […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS The breakout sesisons at AWS re:Invent start on Wednesday, but plenty of people have already arrived and the product announcements have started. In the big data world, the Amazon DynamoDB team announced a sneak preview of an exciting new feature: DynamoDB Streams (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/dynamodb-streams-preview/).  This will allow […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. Brad Helicher, Director of Cloud Business at Attunity, also contributed to this post. Attunity is an APN Big Data Competency Partner. Introduction University of Maryland University College’s mission is to provide a quality education at an affordable cost to busy professionals, mainly adults who are juggling […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services Introduction In the first two parts of this series we discussed two popular products–out of many possible solutions–for moving big data into the cloud: Tsunami UDP and Data Expedition’s ExpeDat S3 Gateway. Today we’ll look at another option that takes a different approach: Signiant […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services Introduction A previous blog post (Moving Big Data Into the Cloud with Tsunami UDP) discussed how Tsunami UDP is a fast and easy way to move large amounts of data to and from AWS. Specifically, we showed how you can use it to move […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services AWS Solutions Architect Leo Zhadanovsky also contributed to this post. Introduction One of the biggest challenges facing companies that want to leverage the scale and elasticity of AWS for analytics is how to move their data into the cloud. It’s increasingly common to have […]