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Category: Analytics

Diligent enhances customer governance with automated data-driven insights using Amazon QuickSight

This post is co-written with Vidya Kotamraju and Tallis Hobbs, from Diligent. Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing software as a service (SaaS) services across governance, risk, compliance, and audit, helping companies meet their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) commitments. Serving more than 1 million users from over 25,000 customers around the […]

Introducing native support for Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg on AWS Glue for Apache Spark, Part 1: Getting Started

AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. AWS Glue provides an extensible architecture that enables users with different data processing use cases. A common use case is building data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using AWS […]

Automate deployment and version updates for Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics applications with AWS CodePipeline

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. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is the easiest way to transform and analyze streaming data in real time using Apache Flink. Customers are already using Kinesis Data Analytics […]

Super-charged pivot tables in Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a fast and cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and deliver insights to everyone in your organization without any servers or infrastructure. QuickSight dashboards can also be embedded into applications and portals to deliver insights to external stakeholders. Additionally, with Amazon QuickSight Q, end-users can simply ask […]

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available!

We ended 2022 on a high note with the preview release of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless at re:Invent. Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, the serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easier to run search and analytics workloads without even having to think about infrastructure management. […]

How SikSin improved customer engagement with AWS Data Lab and Amazon Personalize

This post is co-written with Byungjun Choi and Sangha Yang from SikSin. SikSin is a technology platform connecting customers with restaurant partners serving their multiple needs. Customers use the SikSin platform to search and discover restaurants, read and write reviews, and view photos. From the restaurateurs’ perspective, SikSin enables restaurant partners to engage and acquire […]

Build a multi-Region and highly resilient modern data architecture using AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation

AWS Lake Formation helps with enterprise data governance and is important for a data mesh architecture. It works with the AWS Glue Data Catalog to enforce data access and governance. Both services provide reliable data storage, but some customers want replicated storage, catalog, and permissions for compliance purposes. This post explains how to create a […]

Build a serverless analytics application with Amazon Redshift and Amazon API Gateway

Serverless applications are a modernized way to perform analytics among business departments and engineering teams. Business teams can gain meaningful insights by simplifying their reporting through web applications and distributing it to a broader audience. Use cases can include the following: Dashboarding – A webpage consisting of tables and charts where each component can offer […]

A dive into redBus’s data platform and how they used Amazon QuickSight to accelerate business insights

This post is co-authored with Girish Kumar Chidananda from redBus. redBus is one of the earliest adopters of AWS in India, and most of its services and applications are hosted on the AWS Cloud. AWS provided redBus the flexibility to scale their infrastructure rapidly while keeping costs extremely low. AWS has a comprehensive suite of services […]