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Accelerate resize and encryption of Amazon Redshift clusters with asynchronous classic resize

March 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with Amazon Redshift’s latest classic resize process. Amazon Redshift has improved the performance of the classic resize feature and increased the flexibility of the cluster snapshot restore operation. You can use the classic resize operation to resize a cluster when you need to change the instance type […]

Custom packages and hot reload of dictionary files with Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy and operate OpenSearch clusters cost-effectively at scale in the AWS Cloud. The service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more by offering the latest versions of OpenSearch, support for 19 versions […]

Introducing Embedded Analytics Data Lab to accelerate integration of Amazon QuickSight analytics into applications

We are excited to announce Embedded Analytics Data Lab (EADL), a no-cost collaborative engagement that helps engineering and development teams cut down time required to launch applications with embedded analytics from Amazon QuickSight in production by providing hands-on guidance and architectural best practices. Embedding rich analytics such as interactive visuals and dashboards directly into applications […]

Optimize your Amazon Redshift query performance with automated materialized views

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse database that makes it cost-effective to analyze your data using standard SQL and business intelligence tools. Amazon Redshift allows you to analyze structured and semi-structured data and seamlessly query data lakes and operational databases, using AWS designed hardware and automated machine learning (ML)-based tuning to […]

Achieve fine-grained data security with row-level access control in Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. With Amazon Redshift, you can analyze all your data to derive holistic insights about your business and your customers. One of the challenges with security is that enterprises want to provide fine-grained access control at the row level for sensitive data. You […]

Use Amazon Athena parameterized queries to provide data as a service

Amazon Athena now provides you more flexibility to use parameterized queries, and we recommend you use them as the best practice for your Athena queries moving forward so you benefit from the security, reusability, and simplicity they offer. In a previous post, Improve reusability and security using Amazon Athena parameterized queries, we explained how parameterized […]

Accelerate machine learning with AWS Data Exchange and Amazon Redshift ML

Amazon Redshift ML makes it easy for SQL users to create, train, and deploy ML models using familiar SQL commands. Redshift ML allows you to use your data in Amazon Redshift with Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed ML service, without requiring you to become an expert in ML. AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to […]

Analyze logs with Dynatrace Davis AI Engine using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose HTTP endpoint delivery

This blog post is co-authored with Erick Leon, Sr. Technical Alliance Manager from Dynatrace. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. With just a few clicks, you can create fully-managed delivery streams that auto scale on demand to match the throughput of […]

How William Hill migrated NoSQL workloads at scale to Amazon Keyspaces

Social gaming and online sports betting are competitive environments. The game must be able to handle large volumes of unpredictable traffic while simultaneously promising zero downtime. In this domain, user retention is no longer just desirable, it’s critical. William Hill is a global online gambling company based in London, England, and it is the founding […]

Use AWS CloudWatch as a destination for Amazon Redshift Audit logs

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully-managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data using standard SQL. Amazon Redshift has comprehensive security capabilities to satisfy the most demanding requirements. To help you to monitor the database for security and troubleshooting purposes, Amazon Redshift logs information […]