Category: Analytics

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. July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon DynamoDB helps you capture high-velocity data such as clickstream data to form customized user profiles and online order […]

Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon EMR to run big data analytics applications on Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto at scale. Amazon EMR automates the provisioning and scaling of these frameworks, and delivers high performance at low cost with optimized runtimes and support for a wide range […]

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native BI service that allows end users to create and publish dashboards in minutes, without provisioning any servers or requiring complex licensing. You can view these dashboards on the QuickSight product console or embed them into applications and websites. After you deploy a dashboard, it’s important to assess how they and […]

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. Streaming data is used extensively for use cases like sharing data between applications, streaming ETL (extract, transform, and load), real-time analytics, processing data from internet of things […]

Amazon QuickSight recently added support for Amazon Athena Federated Query, which allows you to query data in place from various data sources. With this capability, QuickSight can extend support to query additional data sources like Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon DocumentDB (with Mongo DB compatibility) via their existing Amazon Athena data source. You […]

November 2022: Please visit our blog on Admin console for latest updates. Given the scalability of Amazon QuickSight to hundreds and thousands of users, a common use case is to monitor QuickSight group and user activities, analyze the utilization of dashboards, and identify usage patterns of an individual user and dashboard. With timely access to […]

Infrastructure and operation teams are often challenged with getting a full view into their IT environments to do monitoring and troubleshooting. New monitoring technologies are needed to provide an integrated view of all components of an IT infrastructure and application system. Datadog provides intelligent application and service monitoring by bringing together data from servers, databases, […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details.  Updated May 11, 2021. See the release notes below for more details. Trace Analytics is now available for Amazon OpenSearch Service domains running versions 7.9 or later. Developers and IT Ops teams can use this feature to troubleshoot performance and […]

This is a guest blog post by Kazuhide Fujita, Product Manager at Yahoo! JAPAN. Yahoo! JAPAN is a large internet search and media company, with Yahoo! JAPAN’s web portal being the one of the most commonly used websites in Japan. Our smart devices team is responsible for building and improving Yahoo! JAPAN apps for voice […]

May 2022: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In the connected world, data is getting generated from many different sources in a wide variety of data formats. Enterprises are looking for tools to ingest from these evolving data sources as well as programmatically customize the ingested data to meet their data analytics needs. You also need […]