Category: Amazon Redshift

Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog that allows generating column-level statistics for AWS Glue tables. These statistics are now integrated with the cost-based optimizers (CBO) of Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift Spectrum, resulting in improved query performance and potential cost savings. Data lakes are designed for storing vast amounts […]

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. With Amazon Redshift, you can analyze all your data to derive holistic insights about your business and your customers. Amazon Redshift now supports custom URLs or custom domain names for your data warehouse. You might want to use a custom domain name […]

Amazon Redshift is a cloud data warehousing service that provides high-performance analytical processing based on a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture. Building and maintaining data pipelines is a common challenge for all enterprises. Managing the SQL files, integrating cross-team work, incorporating all software engineering principles, and importing external utilities can be a time-consuming task that […]

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x better price-performance than other cloud data warehouses. As with all AWS […]

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x better price-performance than any other cloud data warehouses. As with all […]

AWS re:Invent is a powerhouse of a learning event and every time I have attended, I’ve been amazed at its scale and impact. There are keynotes packed with announcements from AWS leaders, training and certification opportunities, access to more than 2,000 technical sessions, an elaborate expo, executive summits, after-hours events, demos, and much more. The […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it straightforward and cost-effective to analyze all your data at petabyte scale, using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Today, tens of thousands of customers run business-critical workloads on Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it effortless to run and […]

This post is co-written by Anshuman Varshney, Technical Lead at Gameskraft. Gameskraft is one of India’s leading online gaming companies, offering gaming experiences across a variety of categories such as rummy, ludo, poker, and many more under the brands RummyCulture, Ludo Culture, Pocket52, and Playship. Gameskraft holds the Guinness World Record for organizing the world’s […]

This post is co-written with Preshen Goobiah and Johan Olivier from Capitec. Apache Spark is a widely-used open source distributed processing system renowned for handling large-scale data workloads. It finds frequent application among Spark developers working with Amazon EMR, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Glue and custom Spark applications. Amazon Redshift offers seamless integration with Apache Spark, […]

Building a data platform involves various approaches, each with its unique blend of complexities and solutions. A modern data platform entails maintaining data across multiple layers, targeting diverse platform capabilities like high performance, ease of development, cost-effectiveness, and DataOps features such as CI/CD, lineage, and unit testing. In this post, we delve into a case […]