Category: Analytics

As the industry grows with more data volume, big data analytics is becoming a common requirement in data analytics and machine learning (ML) use cases. Analysts are building complex data transformation pipelines that include multiple steps for data preparation and cleansing. However, analysts may want a simpler orchestration mechanism with a graphical user interface that […]

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 into or out of a data system must be fast. One of the most expensive pieces of any streaming system is the I/O of the […]

Presto is an open-source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Presto was designed and written from the ground up for interactive analytics, and approaches the speed of commercial data warehouses while scaling to the size of organizations like Facebook. Running Presto […]

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we announced the preview of native support for JSON and semi-structured data in Amazon Redshift. This includes a new data type, SUPER, which allows you to store JSON and other semi-structured data in Amazon Redshift tables, and support for the PartiQL query language, which allows you to seamlessly query and process […]

October 2022: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Organizations can gain deeper and richer insights when they bring together all their relevant data of all structures and types and from all sources to analyze. In order to analyze these vast amounts of data, they are taking all their data from various silos and aggregating all […]

This is a guest post by Zachary Whitford, Associate, Richa Prajapati, Vice President and Aldo Piddiu, Vice President in the Global Investment Research engineering team at Goldman Sachs. To see how Goldman Sachs is innovating more with AWS visit Goldman Sachs Leading Cloud Innovator page. The Global Investment Research (GIR) division at Goldman Sachs delivers […]

AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service that helps you build, secure, and manage data lakes, and provide access control for data in the data lake. Customers across lines of business (LOBs) need a way to manage granular access permissions for different users at the table and column level. Lake Formation helps you manage […]

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Redshift console partner integration is now generally available. This new console integration provides rapid provisioning and seamless integration with AWS partners. You can onboard with data integration partner solutions in less than a minute directly on the Amazon Redshift console, and ingest data from multiple data sources using partners’ […]

This is a guest blog post by Marc Müller, David Amornvuttkul, and Amira Lotfy at VNR AG. German publishing house VNR AG has a simple mission: to make expert knowledge accessible to everyone. Founded in 1976, the company has published more than 300 volumes in law, investment, health, and workplace environments. It provides customers with […]

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we announced the preview of Amazon EMR Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of EMR Studio and new features we’ve […]