Category: Analytics

Given the scalability of Amazon QuickSight to hundreds and thousands of users, a common use case is to monitor QuickSight group and user activities, analyze the utilization of dashboards, and identify usage patterns of an individual user and dashboard. With timely access to interactive usage metrics, business intelligence (BI) administrators and data team leads can […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details.  Updated May 11, 2021. See the release notes below for more details. Trace Analytics is now available for Amazon OpenSearch Service domains running versions 7.9 or later. Developers and IT Ops teams can use this feature to troubleshoot performance and […]

This is a guest blog post by Kazuhide Fujita, Product Manager at Yahoo! JAPAN. Yahoo! JAPAN is a large internet search and media company, with Yahoo! JAPAN’s web portal being the one of the most commonly used websites in Japan. Our smart devices team is responsible for building and improving Yahoo! JAPAN apps for voice […]

Software service providers offer subscription-based analytics capabilities in the cloud with Analytics as a Service (AaaS), and increasingly customers are turning to AaaS for business insights. A multi-tenant storage strategy allows the service providers to build a cost-effective architecture to meet increasing demand. Multi-tenancy means a single instance of software and its supporting infrastructure is […]

The ability to query data and perform ad hoc analysis across multiple platforms and data stores with a single tool brings immense value to the big data analytical arena. As organizations build out data lakes with increasing volumes of data, there is a growing need to combine that data with large amounts of data in […]

I was working with a customer who was just getting started using AWS, and they wanted to understand how to query their AWS service logs that were being delivered to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). I introduced them to Amazon Athena, a serverless, interactive query service that allows you to easily analyze data in […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This is a customer post written by the engineers from German startup Baqend and the AWS EMEA Prototyping Labs team. Baqend is one of the fastest-growing software as a service (SaaS) startups in Germany, serving over 5,000 business customers with […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in a data lake using standard SQL. One of the key elements of Athena is that you only pay for the queries you run. This is an attractive feature because there is no hardware to set up, manage, or maintain. You […]

This is a guest blog post by Gary Bouton and Louis Ashner from EMX. In their own words, “ENGINE Media Exchange (EMX) is a leading marketing technology company, leveraging a patented, end-to-end tech stack purpose-built to meet the demands of today’s digital marketplace. The company creates both open- and closed-loop solutions designed to unify advertisers, […]

Amazon Athena has released a new feature that allows you to easily invoke machine learning (ML) models for inference directly from your SQL queries. Inference is the stage in which a trained model is used to infer and predict the testing samples and comprises a similar forward pass as training to predict the values. Unlike […]