Category: Analytics

When it comes to time-series data, it’s more common to access new data over existing data, such as the last 4 hours or 1 day. Often, application teams are tasked with maintaining multiple indexes for diverse data workloads, which brings new requirements to set up a custom solution to manage the indexes’ lifecycle. This becomes […]

Amazon QuickSight now supports easy and intuitive filter controls that you can place beside visuals on dashboards, allowing readers to quickly slice and dice data in the context of its visual representation. You can create these filter controls from existing or new filters with a single click, and configure them to support different operations, such […]

Amazon Redshift is the most popular and fastest cloud data warehouse, offering seamless integration with your data lake, up to three times faster performance than any other cloud data warehouse, and up to 75% lower cost than any other cloud data warehouse. When you use Amazon Redshift to scale compute and storage independently, a need […]

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and healthcare organizations are increasingly employing genetic sequencing to screen, track, and contain harmful pathogens. ICBiome is a startup that has been working on this problem for several years, creating innovative data analytics products using AWS to help hospitals and researchers address both community-associated and hospital-acquired infections. Building […]

Many organizations have started using single sign-on (SSO) with multi-factor authentication (MFA) for enhanced security. This additional authentication factor is the new normal, which enhances the security provided by the user name and password model. Using SSO reduces the effort needed to maintain and remember multiple login credentials. In the past, you needed to manage […]

Businesses across the world are seeing a massive influx of data at an enormous pace through multiple channels. With the advent of cloud computing, many companies are realizing the benefits of getting their data into the cloud to gain meaningful insights and save costs on data processing and storage. As businesses embark on their journey […]

Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost-effectively at scale. Search and log analytics are the two most popular use cases for Amazon ES. In log analytics at scale, a common pattern is to create indexes from multiple sources. In […]

Customers today want to establish a single identity and access strategy across all of their own apps, such as on-premises apps, third-party cloud apps (SaaS), or apps in AWS. If your organization use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for cloud applications, you can enable single sign-on (SSO) for applications like Amazon QuickSight without needing to […]

This is a guest post by Shimpei Kodama, data engineer at Cookpad Inc. Cookpad is a tech company that builds a community platform where people share recipe ideas and cooking tips. The company’s mission is to “make everyday cooking fun.” It’s one of the largest recipe-sharing platforms in Japan with over 50 million users per […]

AWS Glue Studio is an easy-to-use graphical interface that speeds up the process of authoring, running, and monitoring extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs in AWS Glue. The visual interface allows those who don’t know Apache Spark to design jobs without coding experience and accelerates the process for those who do. AWS Glue Studio was […]