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Swapna Bandla

Author: Swapna Bandla

Swapna Bandla is a Senior Streaming Solutions Architect on the AWS Streaming Specialist SA Team. Swapna has a passion for understanding customers' data and analytics needs, and empowering them to develop cloud-based, well-architected solutions. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family.

Streamline Apache Kafka topic management with Amazon MSK

In this post, we show you how to use the new topic management capabilities of Amazon MSK to streamline your Apache Kafka operations. We demonstrate how to manage topics through the console, control access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and bring topic provisioning into your continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Amazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing for 180 times faster operation performance

Effective today, all new Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Provisioned clusters with Express brokers will support Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost. In this post we’ll introduce the Intelligent Rebalancing feature and show an example of how it works to improve operation performance.

Overcome your Kafka Connect challenges with Amazon Data Firehose

We’re happy to announce a new feature in the Amazon Data Firehose integration with Amazon MSK. You can now specify the Firehose stream to either read from the earliest position on the Kafka topic or from a custom timestamp to begin reading from your MSK topic. In this post of this series, we focus on managed data delivery from Kafka to your data lake.

Uplevel your data architecture with real- time streaming using Amazon Data Firehose and Snowflake

Today’s fast-paced world demands timely insights and decisions, which is driving the importance of streaming data. Streaming data refers to data that is continuously generated from a variety of sources. The sources of this data, such as clickstream events, change data capture (CDC), application and service logs, and Internet of Things (IoT) data streams are […]

Build an analytics pipeline that is resilient to schema changes using Amazon Redshift Spectrum

You can ingest and integrate data from multiple Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to get insights. However, you may have to integrate data from multiple IoT sensor devices to derive analytics like equipment health information from all the sensors based on common data elements. Each of these sensor devices could be transmitting data with unique […]