AWS Big Data Blog

Category: AWS Glue

­­­­­­Introducing AWS Glue 3.0 with optimized Apache Spark 3.1 runtime for faster data integration

May 2022: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In August 2020, we announced the availability of AWS Glue 2.0. AWS Glue 2.0 reduced job startup times by 10x, enabling customers to reali­­ze an average of 45% cost savings on their extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. The fast start time allows customers to easily adopt […]

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 […]

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 […]

Build a serverless event-driven workflow with AWS Glue and Amazon EventBridge

Customers are adopting event-driven-architectures to improve the agility and resiliency of their applications. As a result, data engineers are increasingly looking for simple-to-use yet powerful and feature-rich data processing tools to build pipelines that enrich data, move data in and out of their data lake and data warehouse, and analyze data. AWS Glue is a […]

Data preparation using an Amazon RDS for MySQL database with AWS Glue DataBrew

With AWS Glue DataBrew, data analysts and data scientists can easily access and visually explore any amount of data across their organization directly from their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, Amazon Redshift data warehouse, or Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) databases. You can choose from over 250 built-in […]

Incremental data matching using AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue

AWS Lake Formation provides a machine learning (ML) capability (FindMatches transform) to identify duplicate or matching records in your dataset, even when the records don’t have a common unique identifier and no fields match exactly. Customers across many industries have come to rely on this feature for linking datasets like patient records, customer databases, and […]

Create a secure data lake by masking, encrypting data, and enabling fine-grained access with AWS Lake Formation

You can build data lakes with millions of objects on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use AWS native analytics and machine learning (ML) services to process, analyze, and extract business insights. You can use a combination of our purpose-built databases and analytics services like Amazon EMR, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Amazon Redshift as […]

Design a data mesh architecture using AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue

April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy.  Organizations of all sizes have recognized that data is one of the key enablers to increase and sustain innovation, and drive value for their customers and business units. They are eagerly modernizing traditional data platforms with cloud-native technologies that are highly scalable, feature-rich, and cost-effective. As you […]

Design patterns for an enterprise data lake using AWS Lake Formation cross-account access

In this post, we briefly walk through the most common design patterns adapted by enterprises to build lake house solutions to support their business agility in a multi-tenant model using the AWS Lake Formation cross-account feature to enable a multi-account strategy for line of business (LOB) accounts to produce and consume data from your data […]

Hydrate your data lake with SaaS application data using Amazon AppFlow

Organizations today want to make data-driven decisions. The data could lie in multiple source systems, such as line of business applications, log files, connected devices, social media, and many more. As organizations adopt software as a service (SaaS) applications, data becomes increasingly fragmented and trapped in different “data islands.” To make decision-making easier, organizations are […]