Category: Analytics

Since launch, Amazon QuickSight has enabled business users to quickly and easily analyze data from a wide variety of data sources with superfast visualization capabilities enabled by SPICE (Superfast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine). When setting up Amazon QuickSight access for business users, administrators have a choice of authentication mechanisms. These include Amazon QuickSight–specific credentials, AWS […]

Customers across the world are increasingly building innovative Internet of Things (IoT) workloads on AWS. With AWS, they can handle the constant stream of data coming from millions of new, internet-connected devices. This data can be a valuable source of information if it can be processed, analyzed, and visualized quickly in a scalable, cost-efficient manner. […]

In the healthcare field, data comes in all shapes and sizes. Despite efforts to standardize terminology, some concepts (e.g., blood glucose) are still often depicted in different ways. This post demonstrates how to convert an openly available dataset called MIMIC-III, which consists of de-identified medical data for about 40,000 patients, into an open source data […]

When building a streaming data solution, most customers want to test it with data that is similar to their production data. Creating this data and streaming it to your solution can often be the most tedious task in testing the solution. Amazon Kinesis Streams and Amazon Kinesis Firehose enable you to continuously capture and store […]

Starting with Amazon EMR 5.2.0, you have the option to run Apache HBase on Amazon S3. Running HBase on S3 gives you several added benefits, including lower costs, data durability, and easier scalability. HBase provides several options that you can use to migrate and back up HBase tables. The steps to migrate to HBase on […]

Last December, we introduced the Amazon Athena connector in Amazon QuickSight, in the Derive Insights from IoT in Minutes using AWS IoT, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight post. The connector allows you to visualize your big data easily in Amazon S3 using Athena’s interactive query engine in a serverless fashion. This turned […]

We launched Amazon QuickSight to democratize BI. Our goal is to make it easier and cheaper to roll out advanced business analytics capabilities to everyone in an organization. Overall, this enables better understanding of business, and allows faster data-driven decisions in an organization. In the past, the ability to share data presented an administrative challenge […]

This blog post has been translated into Japanese and Chinese. Data warehousing workloads are known for high variability due to seasonality, potentially expensive exploratory queries, and the varying skill levels of SQL developers. To obtain high performance in the face of highly variable workloads, Amazon Redshift workload management (WLM) enables you to flexibly manage priorities and resource […]

NOTE: As of November 2018, you can run Apache Flink programs with Amazon Kinesis Analytics for Java Applications in a fully managed environment. You can find further details in a new blog post on the AWS Big Data Blog and in this Github repository. ————————– This post has been translated into Japanese. In today’s business environments, data is generated in […]

This is a guest post by Seth Fitzsimmons, member of the 2017 OpenStreetMap US board of directors. Seth works with clients including the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Mapzen, the American Red Cross, and World Bank to craft innovative geospatial solutions. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, editable map of the world, created and maintained by volunteers and […]