Category: Analytics

Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale. With QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, paginated reports, embedded analytics and natural language queries. We have introduced dataset parameters, a new kind of parameter in QuickSight that can help you […]

In this post, we explain how you can enable business users to ask and answer questions about data using their everyday business language by using the Amazon QuickSight natural language query function, Amazon QuickSight Q. QuickSight is a unified BI service providing modern interactive dashboards, natural language querying, paginated reports, machine learning (ML) insights, and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]