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Category: Amazon Redshift

Power analytics as a service capabilities using Amazon Redshift

Analytics as a service (AaaS) is a business model that uses the cloud to deliver analytic capabilities on a subscription basis. This model provides organizations with a cost-effective, scalable, and flexible solution for building analytics. The AaaS model accelerates data-driven decision-making through advanced analytics, enabling organizations to swiftly adapt to changing market trends and make […]

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Achieve near real time operational analytics using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift

Our zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift facilitates point-to-point data movement to get it ready for analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) using Amazon Redshift on petabytes of data. In this post, we provide step-by-step guidance on how to get started with near real time operational analytics using the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift.

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How Aura from Unity revolutionized their big data pipeline with Amazon Redshift Serverless

Aura from Unity (formerly known as ironSource) is the market standard for creating rich device experiences that engage and retain customers. In this post, we describe Aura’s successful and swift adoption of Redshift Serverless, which allowed them to optimize their overall bidding advertisement campaigns’ time to market from 24 hours to 2 hours. We explore why Aura chose this solution and what technological challenges it helped solve.

Improve healthcare services through patient 360: A zero-ETL approach to enable near real-time data analytics

Healthcare providers have an opportunity to improve the patient experience by collecting and analyzing broader and more diverse datasets. This includes patient medical history, allergies, immunizations, family disease history, and individuals’ lifestyle data such as workout habits. Having access to those datasets and forming a 360-degree view of patients allows healthcare providers such as claim […]

Successfully conduct a proof of concept in Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data. In this post, we discuss how to successfully conduct a proof of concept in Amazon Redshift by going through the main stages of the process, available tools that accelerate implementation, and common use cases.

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Unlock insights on Amazon RDS for MySQL data with zero-ETL integration to Amazon Redshift

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift was announced in preview at AWS re:Invent 2023 for Amazon RDS for MySQL version 8.0.28 or higher. In this post, we provide step-by-step guidance on how to get started with near real-time operational analytics using this feature. This post is a continuation […]

Announcing data filtering for Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift

AWS is now announcing data filtering on zero-ETL integrations, enabling you to bring in selective data from the database instance on zero-ETL integrations between Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon Redshift. This feature allows you to select individual databases and tables to be replicated to your Redshift data warehouse for analytics use cases. In this post, we provide an overview of use cases where you can use this feature, and provide step-by-step guidance on how to get started with near real time operational analytics using this feature.

Enrich your customer data with geospatial insights using Amazon Redshift, AWS Data Exchange, and Amazon QuickSight

It always pays to know more about your customers, and AWS Data Exchange makes it straightforward to use publicly available census data to enrich your customer dataset. The United States Census Bureau conducts the US census every 10 years and gathers household survey data. This data is anonymized, aggregated, and made available for public use. […]

Best practices to implement near-real-time analytics using Amazon Redshift Streaming Ingestion with Amazon MSK

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, scalable cloud data warehouse that accelerates your time to insights with fast, straightforward, and secure analytics at scale. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries, making it the most widely used cloud data warehouse. You can run […]

How BMO improved data security with Amazon Redshift and AWS Lake Formation

This post is cowritten with Amy Tseng, Jack Lin and Regis Chow from BMO. BMO is the 8th largest bank in North America by assets. It provides personal and commercial banking, global markets, and investment banking services to 13 million customers. As they continue to implement their Digital First strategy for speed, scale and the […]