Category: Analytics

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 […]

Software service providers offer subscription-based analytics capabilities in the cloud with Analytics as a Service (AaaS), and increasingly customers are turning to AaaS for business insights. A multi-tenant storage strategy allows the service providers to build a cost-effective architecture to meet increasing demand. Multi-tenancy means a single instance of software and its supporting infrastructure is […]

The ability to query data and perform ad hoc analysis across multiple platforms and data stores with a single tool brings immense value to the big data analytical arena. As organizations build out data lakes with increasing volumes of data, there is a growing need to combine that data with large amounts of data in […]

I was working with a customer who was just getting started using AWS, and they wanted to understand how to query their AWS service logs that were being delivered to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). I introduced them to Amazon Athena, a serverless, interactive query service that allows you to easily analyze data in […]

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. This is a customer post written by the engineers from German startup Baqend and the AWS EMEA Prototyping Labs team. Baqend is one of the fastest-growing software […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in a data lake using standard SQL. One of the key elements of Athena is that you only pay for the queries you run. This is an attractive feature because there is no […]