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Category: Amazon Kinesis

Detect change points in your event data stream using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda

The success of many modern streaming applications depends on the ability to sequentially detect each change as soon as possible after it occurs, while continuing to monitor the data stream as it evolves. Applications of change point detection range across genomics, marketing, and finance, to name a few. In genomics, change point detection can help […]

Migrating from Vertica to Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift powers analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. With Amazon Redshift, you can query petabytes of structured and semi-structured data across your data warehouse, operational database, and your data lake using standard SQL. When you use Vertica, you have to install and upgrade Vertica database software and manage the […]

Unified serverless streaming ETL architecture with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Businesses across the world […]

Streaming data from Amazon S3 to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using AWS DMS

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. December 2022: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Stream processing is very useful in use cases where we need to detect a problem quickly and improve the […]

Enhanced monitoring and automatic scaling for Apache Flink

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Thousands of developers use Apache Flink to build streaming applications to transform and analyze data in real time. Apache Flink is an open-source framework and engine for […]

Stream CDC into an Amazon S3 data lake in Parquet format with AWS DMS

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Most organizations generate data in real time and ever-increasing volumes. Data is captured from a variety of sources, such as transactional and reporting databases, application logs, customer-facing websites, and external feeds. Companies […]

Stream, transform, and analyze XML data in real time with Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Redshift

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. When we look at […]

Enhancing customer safety by leveraging the scalable, secure, and cost-optimized Toyota Connected Data Lake

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), a global automotive manufacturer, has made “connected cars” a core priority as part of its broader transformation from an auto company to a mobility company. In recent years, […]

Integrating MongoDB’s Application Data Platform with Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

With the release of Kinesis Data Firehose HTTP endpoint delivery, you can now stream your data through Amazon Kinesis or directly push data to Kinesis Data Firehose and configure it to deliver data to MongoDB Atlas. You can also configure Kinesis Data Firehose to transform the data before delivering it to its destination. You don’t have to write applications and manage resources to read data and push to MongoDB. It’s all managed by AWS, making it easier to estimate costs for your data based on your data volume. In this post, we discuss how to integrate Kinesis Data Firehose and MongoDB Cloud and demonstrate how to stream data from your source to MongoDB Atlas.

Creating customized Vega visualizations in Amazon Elasticsearch Service

This post shows how to implement Vega visualizations included in Kibana, which is part of Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), using a real-world clickstream data sample. Vega visualizations are an integrated scripting mechanism of Kibana to perform on-the-fly computations on raw data to generate D3.js visualizations. For this post, we use a fully automated setup using AWS CloudFormation to show how to build a customized histogram for a web analytics use case. This example implements an ad hoc map-reduce like aggregation of the underlying data for a histogram.