Category: Analytics

Amazon Redshift RA3 is the latest generation node type that allows you to scale compute and storage for your data warehouses independently. The RA3 node family includes RA3.16xlarge, RA3.4xlarge, and RA3.xlplus nodes for large, medium, and small workloads, respectively. RA3.xlplus, the latest member of the RA3 node family, offers one third of the computing power […]

This post is authored by Giridhar G Jorapur, GE Aviation Digital Technology. Maintenance and overhauling of aircraft engines are essential for GE Aviation to increase time on wing gains and reduce shop visit costs. Engine wash analytics provide visibility into the significant time on wing gains that can be achieved through effective water wash, foam […]

ENGIE—one of the largest utility providers in France and a global player in the zero-carbon energy transition—produces, transports, and deals electricity, gas, and energy services. With 160,000 employees worldwide, ENGIE is a decentralized organization and operates 25 business units with a high level of delegation and empowerment. ENGIE’s decentralized global customer base had accumulated lots […]

In Part 1 of this post, we provided a solution to build the sourcing, orchestration, and transformation of data from multiple source systems, including Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle, into a managed modern data platform. Roche partnered with AWS Professional Services to build out this fully automated and scalable platform to provide the foundation for their […]

This is a guest blog post co-written by Amit Nayak at Microstrategy. In their own words, “MicroStrategy is the largest independent publicly traded business intelligence (BI) company, with the leading enterprise analytics platform. Our vision is to enable Intelligence Everywhere. MicroStrategy provides modern analytics on an open, comprehensive enterprise platform used by many of the […]

Amazon QuickSight recently added native support for comparative (e.g., year-over-year) and cumulative (e.g., year-to-date) period functions which allow you to easily introduce these calculations in business reporting, trend analysis and time series analysis. This allows authors in QuickSight to implement advanced calculations without having to use complicated date offsets in calculations to achieve such datetime-aware […]

Today’s businesses face an unprecedented growth in the volume of data. A growing portion of the data is generated in real time by IoT devices, websites, business applications, and various other sources. Businesses need to process and analyze this data as soon as it arrives to make business decisions in real time. Amazon Managed Streaming […]

Data is being produced, streamed, and consumed at an immense rate, and that rate is projected to grow exponentially in the future. In particular, JSON is the most widely used data format across streaming technologies and workloads. As applications, websites, and machines increasingly adopt data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Data […]

Streaming ETL jobs in AWS Glue can consume data from streaming sources such as Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka, clean and transform those data streams in-flight, as well as continuously load the results into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, data warehouses, or other data stores. The always-on nature of streaming jobs poses […]

The volume of data being generated globally is growing at an ever-increasing pace. Data is generated to support an increasing number of use cases, such as IoT, advertisement, gaming, security monitoring, machine learning (ML), and more. The growth of these use cases drives both volume and velocity of streaming data and requires companies to capture, […]