AWS Big Data Blog
Getting started with Apache Iceberg write support in Amazon Redshift – Part 2
Amazon Redshift now supports DELETE, UPDATE, and MERGE operations for Apache Iceberg tables stored in Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 table buckets. With these operations, you can modify data at the row level, implement upsert patterns, and manage the data lifecycle while maintaining transactional consistency using familiar SQL syntax. You can run complex transformations in Amazon Redshift and write results to Apache Iceberg tables that other analytics engines like Amazon EMR or Amazon Athena can immediately query. In this post, you work with datasets to demonstrate these capabilities in a data synchronization scenario.
Get to insights faster using Notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
In this post, we demonstrate how Notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio help you get to insights faster by simplifying infrastructure configuration. You’ll see how to analyze housing price data, create scalable data tables, run distributed profiling, and train machine learning (ML) models within a single notebook environment.
How to use Parquet Column Indexes with Amazon Athena
In this blog post, we use Athena and Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio to explore Parquet Column Indexes and demonstrate how they can improve Iceberg query performance. We explain what Parquet Column Indexes are, demonstrate their performance benefits, and show you how to use them in your applications.
Implementing Kerberos authentication for Apache Spark jobs on Amazon EMR on EKS to access a Kerberos-enabled Hive Metastore
In this post, we show how to configure Kerberos authentication for Spark jobs on Amazon EMR on EKS, authenticating against a Kerberos-enabled HMS so you can run both Amazon EMR on EC2 and Amazon EMR on EKS workloads against a single, secure HMS deployment.
Introducing Amazon MSK Express Broker power for Kiro
In this post, we’ll show you how to use Kiro powers, a new capability that equips Kiro with contextual knowledge and tooling. You can simplify your MSK cluster management, from initial setup to diagnosing common issues, all through natural language conversations.
Introducing workload simulation workbench for Amazon MSK Express broker
In this post, we introduce the workload simulation workbench for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Express Broker. The simulation workbench is a tool that you can use to safely validate your streaming configurations through realistic testing scenarios.
Proactive monitoring for Amazon Redshift Serverless using AWS Lambda and Slack alerts
In this post, we show you how to build a serverless, low-cost monitoring solution for Amazon Redshift Serverless that proactively detects performance anomalies and sends actionable alerts directly to your selected Slack channels.
Modernize business intelligence workloads using Amazon Quick
In this post, we provide implementation guidance for building integrated analytics solutions that combine the generative BI features of Amazon Quick with Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena SQL analytics capabilities.
Agentic AI for observability and troubleshooting with Amazon OpenSearch Service
Now, Amazon OpenSearch Service brings three new agentic AI features to OpenSearch UI. In this post, we show how these capabilities work together to help engineers go from alert to root cause in minutes. We also walk through a sample scenario where the Investigation Agent automatically correlates data across multiple indices to surface a root cause hypothesis.
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.









