AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Analytics

Efficiently crawl your data lake and improve data access with an AWS Glue crawler using partition indexes

In today’s world, customers manage vast amounts of data in their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, which requires convoluted data pipelines to continuously understand the changes in the data layout and make them available to consuming systems. AWS Glue crawlers provide a straightforward way to catalog data in the AWS Glue Data […]

Enable data collaboration among public health agencies with AWS Clean Rooms – Part 1

In this post, we show how you can use AWS Clean Rooms to enable data collaboration between public health agencies. Public health governmental agencies need to understand trends related to a variety of health conditions and care across populations in order to create policies and treatments with the goal of improving the well-being of the […]

Architecture Overview

Enable remote reads from Azure ADLS with SAS tokens using Spark in Amazon EMR

Organizations use data from many sources to understand, analyze, and grow their business. These data sources are often spread across various public cloud providers. Enterprises may also expand their footprint by mergers and acquisitions, and during such events they often end up with data spread across different public cloud providers. These scenarios can create the […]

Improved resiliency with backpressure and admission control for Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it simple to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch clusters at scale in the AWS Cloud. Last year, we introduced Shard Indexing Backpressure and admission control, which monitors cluster resources and incoming traffic to selectively reject requests that would otherwise pose stability risks like out of memory […]

AWS Professional Services scales by improving performance and democratizing data with Amazon QuickSight

The AWS Professional Services (ProServe) Insights team builds global operational data products that serve over 8,000 users within Amazon. Our team was formed in 2019 as an informal group of four analysts who supported ad hoc analysis for a division of ProServe consultants. ProServe is responsible for assisting enterprises as they shift to the cloud […]

Best practices for running production workloads using Amazon MSK tiered storage

In the second post of the series, we discussed some core concepts of the Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) tiered storage feature and explained how read and write operations work in a tiered storage enabled cluster. This post focuses on how to properly size your MSK tiered storage cluster, which metrics to […]

How Klarna Bank AB built real-time decision-making with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink

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 joint post co-authored with Nir Tsruya from Klarna Bank AB. Klarna is a leading global payments and shopping service, providing smarter and more flexible […]

Federate Amazon QuickSight access with open-source identity provider Keycloak

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML) powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud that supports identity federation in both Standard and Enterprise editions. Organizations are working toward centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on-premises and third-party. Many organizations use Keycloak as their identity provider […]

Improve table readability and identify outliers with data bars in Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) solution that makes it simple to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, get access to ML-enabled insights, enable natural language querying of your data, and share visuals and dashboards with tens of thousands of internal and external users, either within QuickSight itself […]

Joulica unifies real-time and historical customer experience analytics with Amazon QuickSight

This is a guest post by Tony McCormack from Joulica. Joulica is an Ireland-based startup in the contact center industry. Our founders previously led contact center research and development for a global contact center technology provider, and we founded Joulica because we saw that the shift to the cloud and growing demand for data and […]