AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Erik Swensson
Big Data Analytics Options on AWS: Updated White Paper
February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Erik Swensson is an Enterprise Solutions Architect Manager for AWS The big data ecosystem is growing quickly. Many AWS services have recently been added, such as AWS Lambda, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon […]
Using LDAP via AWS Directory Service to Access and Administer Your Hadoop Environment
Erik Swensson is a Solutions Architect with AWS In this post you will learn how to leverage a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) service via AWS Directory Service to authenticate and define permissions for users and administrators of Amazon EMR, Amazon’s hosted Hadoop service. A centralized LDAP repository for authentication and authorization lets you more […]
Building Multi-AZ or Multi-Region Amazon Redshift Clusters
This blog post was last reviewed July, 2022. This post explores customer options for building multi-region or multi-availability zone (AZ) clusters. By default, Amazon Redshift has excellent tools to back up your cluster via snapshot to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). These snapshots can be restored in any AZ in that region or transferred […]