Category: Analytics

Alerts and notifications play a crucial role in maintaining data quality because they facilitate prompt and efficient responses to any data quality issues that may arise within a dataset. By establishing and configuring alerts and notifications, you can actively monitor data quality and receive timely alerts when data quality issues are identified. This proactive approach […]

Data is the lifeblood of modern businesses. In today’s data-driven world, companies rely on data to make informed decisions, gain a competitive edge, and provide exceptional customer experiences. However, not all data is created equal. Poor-quality data can lead to incorrect insights, bad decisions, and lost opportunities. AWS Glue Data Quality measures and monitors the […]

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. You can use AWS Glue to create, run, and monitor data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipelines and catalog your assets across multiple data stores. Hundreds of […]

In the first post of the series, we described some core concepts of Apache Kafka cluster sizing, the best practices for optimizing the performance, and the cost of your Kafka workload. This post explains how the underlying infrastructure affects Kafka performance when you use Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) tiered storage. We […]

This is a guest blog post by Mira Daniels and Sean Whitfield from SumUp. SumUp is a leading global financial technology company driven by the purpose of leveling the playing field for small businesses. Founded in 2012, SumUp is the financial partner for more than 4 million small merchants in over 35 markets worldwide, helping […]

September 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with a new dataset and related code blocks and images. AWS SDK for pandas is a popular Python library among data scientists, data engineers, and developers. It simplifies interaction between AWS data and analytics services and pandas DataFrames. It allows easy integration and data movement between 22 […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, both within QuickSight and embedded in your software as a service (SaaS) applications. QuickSight Enterprise edition started supporting nested conditions within row-level security […]

This is a guest post by Joseph Landucci from BWH Hotels. In their own words, “BWH Hotels is a leading, global hospitality enterprise comprised of three hotel companies, including WorldHotels, Best Western Hotels & Resorts and SureStay Hotels. Our mission is to deliver trusted guest experiences, drive hotel success and foster a caring, inclusive culture that respects […]

Amazon Redshift is a widely used, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytic workloads. Customers are looking for tools that make it easier to migrate from other data warehouses, such as Google BigQuery, to Amazon Redshift 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. Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over data streams. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is a fully managed service that […]