AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Analytics

Land data from databases to a data lake at scale using AWS Glue blueprints

To build a data lake on AWS, a common data ingestion pattern is to use AWS Glue jobs to perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from relational databases to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). A project often involves extracting hundreds of tables from source databases to the data lake raw layer. And for […]

Ingest streaming data to Apache Hudi tables using AWS Glue and Apache Hudi DeltaStreamer

In today’s world with technology modernization, the need for near-real-time streaming use cases has increased exponentially. Many customers are continuously consuming data from different sources, including databases, applications, IoT devices, and sensors. Organizations may need to ingest that streaming data into data lakes built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You may also need […]

Common streaming data enrichment patterns in Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink

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. Stream data processing allows you to act on data in real time. Real-time data analytics can help you have on-time and optimized responses while improving overall customer […]

Manage your Amazon QuickSight datasets more efficiently with the new user interface

Amazon QuickSight has launched a new user interface for dataset management. Previously, the dataset management experience was a popup dialog modal with limited space, and all functionality was displayed in this one small modal. The new dataset management experience replaces the existing popup dialog with a full-page experience, providing a clearer breakdown of a dataset’s […]

Automate data archival for Amazon Redshift time series tables

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data using standard SQL. Tens of thousands of customers today rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries, making it the most widely used cloud data warehouse. You can […]

Build, Test and Deploy ETL solutions using AWS Glue and AWS CDK based CI/CD pipelines

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. It’s serverless, so there’s no infrastructure to set up or manage. This post provides a step-by-step guide to build a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using AWS […]

Build a high-performance, transactional data lake using open-source Delta Lake on Amazon EMR

Data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) have become the default repository for all enterprise data and serve as a common choice for a large number of users querying from a variety of analytics and machine learning (ML) tools. Oftentimes you want to ingest data continuously into the data lake from multiple sources […]

Ensure availability of your data using cross-cluster replication with Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy and operate OpenSearch and legacy Elasticsearch 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 […]

How AWS Data Lab helped BMW Financial Services design and build a multi-account modern data architecture

This post is co-written by Martin Zoellner, Thomas Ehrlich and Veronika Bogusch from BMW Group. BMW Group and AWS announced a comprehensive strategic collaboration in 2020. The goal of the collaboration is to further accelerate BMW Group’s pace of innovation by placing data and analytics at the center of its decision-making. A key element of […]

Customize Amazon QuickSight dashboards with the new bookmarks functionality

Amazon QuickSight users now can add bookmarks in dashboards to save customized dashboard preferences into a list of bookmarks for easy one-click access to specific views of the dashboard without having to manually make multiple filter and parameter changes every time. Combined with the “Share this view” functionality, you can also now share your bookmark […]