AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Analytics

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Getting started with Trace Analytics in Amazon OpenSearch Service

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 […]

The following screenshot shows a sample dashboard in QuickSight.

How the Yahoo! JAPAN Smart Devices Team is improving voice user interfaces with Amazon QuickSight business intelligence

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 […]

Performing data transformations using Snowflake and AWS Glue

May 2022: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In the connected world, data is getting generated from many different sources in a wide variety of data formats. Enterprises are looking for tools to ingest from these evolving data sources as well as programmatically customize the ingested data to meet their data analytics needs. You also need […]

The following diagram illustrates the architecture of these multi-tenant storage strategies.

Implementing multi-tenant patterns in Amazon Redshift using data sharing

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 following diagram shows the solution architecture for the Vertica custom connector when deployed to AWS.

Querying a Vertica data source in Amazon Athena using the Athena Federated Query SDK

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 […]

In the following tree diagram, we’ve outlined what the bucket path may look like as logs are delivered to your S3 bucket

Automating AWS service logs table creation and querying them with Amazon Athena

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 […]

Following a remote planning phase in which we defined our requirements and laid out the basic design.

How Baqend built a real-time web analytics platform using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink

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 […]

The following diagram shows the architecture EMX uses.

How EMX reduced data pipeline costs by 85% with Amazon Athena

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, […]

Detecting anomalous values by invoking the Amazon Athena machine learning inference function

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 […]