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Category: Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Data Firehose custom prefixes for Amazon S3 objects

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. In February 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new feature in Amazon Data Firehose called Custom Prefixes for Amazon S3 Objects. It lets customers specify a custom expression for the Amazon […]

Build and run streaming applications with Apache Flink and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Java Applications

In this post, we discuss how you can use Apache Flink and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Java Applications to address these challenges. We explore how to build a reliable, scalable, and highly available streaming architecture based on managed services that substantially reduce the operational overhead compared to a self-managed environment.

Improve clinical trial outcomes by using AWS technologies

We are living in a golden age of innovation, where personalized medicine is making it possible to cure diseases that we never thought curable. Digital medicine is helping people with diseases get healthier, and we are constantly discovering how to use the body’s immune system to target and eradicate cancer cells. According to a report […]

Create real-time clickstream sessions and run analytics with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, AWS Glue, and Amazon Athena

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. Clickstream events are small pieces of data that are generated continuously with high speed and volume. Often, clickstream events are generated by user actions, and it is […]

Our data lake story: How Woot.com built a serverless data lake on AWS

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. In this post, we talk about designing a cloud-native data warehouse as a replacement for our legacy data warehouse built on a relational database. At the beginning of the design process, the […]

Scale Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with AWS Application Auto Scaling

Recently, AWS launched a new feature of AWS Application Auto Scaling that let you define scaling policies that automatically add and remove shards to an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream. For more detailed information about this feature, see the Application Auto Scaling GitHub repository. As your streaming information increases, you require a scaling solution to accommodate […]

Your guide to Amazon Kinesis sessions, chalk talks, and workshops at AWS re:Invent 2018

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. AWS re:Invent 2018 is almost here! This post includes a list of Amazon Kinesis sessions, chalk talks, and workshops at AWS re:Invent 2018. You can choose the link next to each session description for the […]

Turn Windows DHCP Server logs into actionable metrics using Amazon Kinesis Agent for Windows

Understanding Windows system and service health on a global scale is challenging. You capture server log data, and then analyze and manipulate the data in real time to create actionable telemetry insights. Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows makes it efficient to ingest Windows server log data into your AWS ecosystem for analysis. This blog […]

Collect, parse, transform, and stream Windows events, logs, and metrics using Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows

A complete data pipeline that includes Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows (KA4W) can help you analyze and monitor the performance, security, and availability of Windows-based services. You can build near-real-time dashboards and alarms for your Windows services. You can also use visualization and business intelligence tools such as Amazon Athena, Kibana, Amazon QuickSight, and […]