AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Amazon Redshift

How Tophatter improved stability and lowered costs by migrating to Amazon Redshift RA3

This is a guest post co-written by Julien DeFrance of Tophatter and Jordan Myers of Etleap. Tophatter is a mobile discovery marketplace that hosts live auctions for products spanning every major category. Etleap, an AWS Advanced Tier Data & Analytics partner, is an extract, transform, load, and transform (ETLT) service built for AWS. As a […]

How MEDHOST’s cardiac risk prediction successfully leveraged AWS analytic services

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. MEDHOST has been providing products and services to healthcare facilities of all types and sizes for over 35 years. Today, more than 1,000 healthcare facilities are partnering with MEDHOST and enhancing their […]

How Magellan Rx Management used Amazon Redshift ML to predict drug therapeutic conditions

This post is co-written with Karim Prasla and Deepti Bhanti from Magellan Rx Management as the lead authors. Amazon Redshift ML makes it easy for data scientists, data analysts, and database developers to create, train, and use machine learning (ML) models using familiar SQL commands in Amazon Redshift data warehouses. The ML feature can be […]

How Comcast uses AWS to rapidly store and analyze large-scale telemetry data

This blog post is co-written by Russell Harlin from Comcast Corporation. Comcast Corporation creates incredible technology and entertainment that connects millions of people to the moments and experiences that matter most. At the core of this is Comcast’s high-speed data network, providing tens of millions of customers across the country with reliable internet connectivity. This […]

Benchmark the performance of the new Auto WLM with adaptive concurrency in Amazon Redshift

With Amazon Redshift, you can run a complex mix of workloads on your data warehouse clusters. For example, frequent data loads run alongside business-critical dashboard queries and complex transformation jobs. We also see more and more data science and machine learning (ML) workloads. Each workload type has different resource needs and different service level agreements. […]

How GE Healthcare modernized their data platform using a Lake House Architecture

GE Healthcare (GEHC) operates as a subsidiary of General Electric. The company is headquartered in the US and serves customers in over 160 countries. As a leading global medical technology, diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, GE Healthcare enables clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications, and services, supported by […]

Access Amazon Location Service from Amazon Redshift

Organizations typically store business and customer data in databases like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Redshift, and often want to enrich this data by integrating with external services. One such enrichment is to add spatial attributes such as location coordinates for an address. With the introduction of Amazon Location Service, you now […]

Synchronize and control your Amazon Redshift clusters maintenance windows

Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse that can expand to exabyte-scale. Today, tens of thousands of AWS customers (including NTT DOCOMO, Finra, and Johnson & Johnson) use Amazon Redshift to run mission-critical business intelligence dashboards, analyze real-time streaming data, and run predictive analytics jobs. Amazon Redshift powers analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and […]

Accelerate your data warehouse migration to Amazon Redshift – Part 2

This is the second post in a multi-part series. We’re excited to shared dozens of new features to automate your schema conversion; preserve your investment in existing scripts, reports, and applications; accelerate query performance; and potentially reduce your overall cost to migrate to Amazon Redshift. Check out all posts in this series: Accelerate your data […]

How Jobcase is using Amazon Redshift ML to recommend job search content at scale

This post is co-written with Clay Martin and Ajay Joshi from Jobcase as the lead authors. Jobcase is an online community dedicated to empowering and advocating for the world’s workers. We’re the third-largest destination for job search in the United States, and connect millions of Jobcasers to relevant job opportunities, companies, and other resources on […]