Category: Analytics

New Relic can now ingest data directly from Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, expanding the insights New Relic can give you into your cloud stacks so you can deliver more perfect software. Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service for delivering real-time streaming data to AWS services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon […]

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now provides an easy-to-configure and straightforward process for streaming data to a third-party service for analysis, including logs from AWS services. Due to the varying formats and high volume of this data, it’s a complex challenge to identify and correlate key event details and data points to fix issues and improve […]

The value of data is time sensitive. Streaming data services can help you move data quickly from data sources to new destinations for downstream processing. For example, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose can reliably load streaming data into data stores like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch […]

This post shares the simple steps you can take to use the new Amazon Redshift usage controls feature to monitor and control your usage and associated cost for Amazon Redshift Spectrum and Concurrency Scaling features. Redshift Spectrum enables you to power a lake house architecture to directly query and join data across your data warehouse and data lake, and Concurrency Scaling enables you to support thousands of concurrent users and queries with consistently fast query performance.

In the first post of this series, Federating access to your Amazon Redshift cluster with Active Directory: Part 1, you set up Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) based authentication and tested the SAML federation using a web browser. In Part 2, you learn to set up an […]

Many customers request detailed steps to set up federated single sign-on (SSO) using Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) for Amazon Redshift. In this two-part series, you will find detailed steps to achieve federated SSO using AD FS. Part 1 contains steps to set up a Windows 2016 domain controller and AD FS and […]

This post explores how you can use AWS Lake Formation integration with Amazon EMR (still in beta) to implement fine-grained column-level access controls while using Spark in a Zeppelin Notebook. My previous post Extract Salesforce.com data using AWS Glue and analyzing with Amazon Athena showed you a simple use case for extracting any Salesforce object data using AWS Glue and Apache Spark, saving it to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), cataloging the data using the Data Catalog in Glue, and querying it using Amazon Athena.

This is a guest post by Kong Zhao, Solution Architect at NVIDIA Corporation This post shares how NVIDIA sped up RAPIDS XGBoost performance up to 4.5 times faster and reduced costs up to 5.4 times less by using Amazon EMR running Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G4 instances. Gradient boosting is a powerful machine […]

This is a guest post by Delhivery. In this post, we describe the steps Delhivery took to migrate from self-managed Apache Kafka running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). “We’ve been in production for over a year now,” said Akash Deep Verma, Senior Technical Architect, […]

What if you could control the access to your data lake centrally? Would it be more convenient to share specific data securely with internal and external customers? With AWS Lake Formation and its integration with Amazon EMR, you can easily perform these administrative tasks. This post goes through a use case and reviews the steps to control the data access and permissions of your existing data lake.