Category: Amazon EMR

This is a guest post by Ryan Desmond, Solutions Architect at Concurrent. Concurrent is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner. With Amazon Kinesis developers can quickly store, collate and access large, distributed data streams such as access logs, click streams and IoT data in real-time. The question then becomes, how can we access and leverage this […]

This is a guest post by Stephen Verstraete, a manager at Pariveda Solutions. Pariveda Solutions is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner. Common patterns exist for batch processing and real-time processing of Big Data. However, we haven’t seen patterns that allow us to process batches of dependent data in real-time. Expedia’s marketing group needed to analyze […]

This is a guest post by Jeff Smith, Data Engineer at Intent Media. Intent Media, in their own words: “Intent Media operates a platform for advertising on commerce sites.  We help online travel companies optimize revenue on their websites and apps through sophisticated data science capabilities. On the data team at Intent Media, we are […]

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 […]

Hernan Vivani is a Big Data Support Engineer for Amazon Web Services A previous post showed you how to get started with Elasticsearch and Kibana on Amazon EMR. In that post, we installed Elasticsearch and Kibana on an Amazon EMR cluster using bootstrap actions. This post shows you how to build a simple application with […]

Daniel Garrison is a Big Data Support Engineer for Amazon Web Services In Part 1 you learned how Amazon EMR uses Amazon VPC DNS hostname and DHCP settings to satisfy the Hadoop requirements. Because it’s common to change the domain name setting in your DHCP options set to a custom internal domain name, this post […]

This is a guest post by Nate Sammons, a Principal Architect for Nasdaq The Nasdaq group of companies operates financial exchanges around the world and processes large volumes of data every day. We run a wide variety of analytic and surveillance systems, all of which require access to essentially the same data sets. The Nasdaq […]

Nick Durkin is a Senior Solution Engineer for DataTorrent. DataTorrent is an AWS Technology Partner. In this blog post, we introduce fast big data and provide context about the DataTorrent RTS streaming analytics platform. In addition, we show you how to implement a real-time, streaming analytics application for capturing social media trends from Twitter using […]

NOTE: This article contains information and instructions only pertinent to older EMR releases (emr-4.6.0 and earlier) and may no longer be applicable.  For latest information please refer to the current user guide. Daniel Garrison is a Big Data Support Engineer for Amazon Web Services Introduction With Amazon EC2 now firmly in the VPC-by-default model, it’s […]

Patrick Shumate is a Solutions Architect for AWS. Introduction It is fairly common to collect access and application logs but never interactively review them. Monitoring dashboards, coupled with well-instrumented applications, allow operators to manage day-to-day operations without ever digging into the flood of logs silently stored in Amazon S3. That works until the monitoring dashboard […]