Category: Analytics

AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy to prepare and load your data for analytics. AWS Glue has native connectors to connect to supported data sources on AWS or elsewhere using JDBC drivers. Additionally, AWS Glue now supports reading and writing to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB […]

Today, more data is created every hour than in an entire year just 20 years ago. Successful organizations are leveraging this data to deliver better service to their customers, improve their products, and run an efficient and effective business. As the importance of data and analytics continues to grow, the Amazon Redshift cloud data warehouse […]

December 2022: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In today’s world, most organizations have to tackle the 3 V’s of variety, volume and velocity of big data. In this blog post, we talk about dealing with the variety and volume aspects of big data. The challenge of dealing with the variety involves processing data from […]

The continuous growth of data volumes combined with requirements to implement long-term retention (typically due to specific industry regulations) puts pressure on the storage costs of data warehouse solutions, even for cloud native data warehouse services such as Amazon Redshift. The introduction of the new Amazon Redshift RA3 node types helped in decoupling compute from […]

With Amazon EMR release 6.1.0, Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark is now available for Spark 3.0.0. EMR runtime for Apache Spark is a performance-optimized runtime for Apache Spark that is 100% API compatible with open-source Apache Spark. In our benchmark performance tests using TPC-DS benchmark queries at 3 TB scale, we found EMR runtime […]

Disparate data systems have become a norm in many companies. The reasons for this vary: different teams in the organization select data system best suited for its primary function, the responsibility for choosing these data systems may have been decentralized across different departments, a merged company may still use separate data systems from the formerly […]

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. Data streaming technologies like Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams capture and distribute data generated by thousands or millions of applications, websites, or machines. These technologies […]

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a fully managed service that makes it easy to run open-source versions of Apache Airflow on AWS and build workflows to run your extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs and data pipelines. You can use AWS Step Functions as a serverless function orchestrator to build scalable […]

This post was last updated July 2022. Data security is an important pillar in data governance. It includes authentication, authorization , encryption and audit. Amazon EMR enables you to set up and run clusters of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with open-source big data applications like Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache Flink, and Presto. You may […]

In soccer (or football outside of the US), players decide to take shots when they think they can score. But how do they make that determination vs. when to pass or dribble? In a fraction of a second, in motion, while chased from multiple directions by other professional athletes, they think about their distance from […]