Category: Analytics

Part 1 of this multi-post series, ETL and ELT design patterns for lake house architecture using Amazon Redshift: Part 1, discussed common customer use cases and design best practices for building ELT and ETL data processing pipelines for data lake architecture using Amazon Redshift Spectrum, Concurrency Scaling, and recent support for data lake export. This […]

Part 1 of this multi-post series discusses design best practices for building scalable ETL (extract, transform, load) and ELT (extract, load, transform) data processing pipelines using both primary and short-lived Amazon Redshift clusters. You also learn about related use cases for some key Amazon Redshift features such as Amazon Redshift Spectrum, Concurrency Scaling, and recent […]

Patient matching is a major obstacle in achieving healthcare interoperability. Mismatched patient records and inability to retrieve patient history can cause significant barriers to informed clinical decision-making and result in missed diagnoses or delayed treatments. Additionally, healthcare providers often invest in patient data deduplication, especially when the number of patient records is growing rapidly in […]

AWS offers the broadest set of analytic tools and engines that analyzes data using open formats and open standards. To validate expertise with AWS data analytics solutions, builders can now take the beta for the AWS Certified Data Analytics — Specialty certification. The AWS Certified Data Analytics — Specialty certification validates technical expertise with designing, […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze the data stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. You can reduce your per-query costs and get better performance by compressing, partitioning, […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. This post details the two new preview features that you can start using today: connecting […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Amazon Athena has announced a public preview of a new feature that provides an easy […]

Organizations today use data stores that are the best fit for the applications they build. For example, for an organization building a social network, a graph database such as Amazon Neptune is likely the best fit when compared to a relational database. Similarly, for workloads that require flexible schema for fast iterations, Amazon DocumentDB (with […]

Amazon Athena recently added support for federated queries and user-defined functions (UDFs), both in Preview. See Query any data source with Amazon Athena’s new federated query for more details. Jornaya helps marketers intelligently connect consumers who are in the market for major life purchases such as homes, mortgages, cars, insurance, and education. Jornaya collects data […]

Amazon QuickSight now makes it easier for you to spot the highlights or low-lights in data through conditional formatting. With conditional formatting, you can specify customized text or background colors based on field values in the dataset, using solid or gradient colors. You can also display data values with the supported icons. Using color coding and […]