AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Analytics

How Novo Nordisk built a modern data architecture on AWS

Novo Nordisk is a leading global pharmaceutical company, responsible for producing life-saving medicines that reach more than 34 million patients each day. They do this following their triple bottom line—that they must strive to be environmentally sustainable, socially sustainable, and financially sustainable. The combination of using AWS and data supports all these targets. Data is […]

Convoy dashboard showing QuickSight BI

Convoy uses Amazon QuickSight to help shippers and carriers improve efficiency and save money with data-driven decisions

Convoy is the leading digital freight network in the United States. We move millions of truckloads around the country through our connected network of carriers, saving money for shippers, increasing earnings for drivers, and eliminating carbon waste for our planet. In 2015, Convoy started a movement toward efficient freight. We build technology to find smarter […]

Amazon Identity Services uses Amazon QuickSight to empower partners with self-serve data discovery

Amazon Identity Services is responsible for the way Amazon customers—buyers, sellers, developers—identify themselves on Amazon. Our team also manages customers’ core account information, such as names and delivery addresses. Our mission is to deliver the most intuitive, convenient, and secure authentication experience. We’re in charge of account security for Amazon, worldwide, on all device surfaces. […]

Clickedu uses Amazon QuickSight Embedded to empower school administrators with key educational institution health insights

This is a guest post by Ignasi Nogués and Georgina Valls from Clickedu. With more than 1.5 million unique users across 700 schools and core values that include connectivity, reliability, and innovation, Clickedu is the leading educational platform in Spain. Offering both a school administration system and a digital learning environment, Clickedu is one of […]

AWS Specialist Insights Team uses Amazon QuickSight to provide operational insights across the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization

The AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is a team of go-to-market experts that support strategic services, customer segments, and verticals at AWS. Working together, the Specialist Insights Team (SIT) and the Finance, Analytics, Science, and Technology team (FAST) support WWSO in acquiring, securing, and delivering information and business insights at scale by working with the […]

Impact of infrastructure failures on shards in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch and legacy Elasticsearch clusters at scale in the AWS Cloud. Amazon OpenSearch Service provisions all the resources for your cluster, launches it, and automatically detects and replaces failed nodes, reducing the overhead of self-managed infrastructures. The service makes […]

Visma InSchool uses Amazon QuickSight to meet varied business intelligence needs with employees and customers

This is a guest post by Vasily Ulianko and Per Brandser from Visma InSchool. Located in Europe and Latin America, with headquarters in Norway, Visma has a bold vision to shape the future of society through technology. To do that, we provide business-critical software solutions for over 1 million customers across the Nordics, Benelux, Central […]

Leverages uses Amazon QuickSight to drive valuable and effective customer engagement with embedded market trends and insights

This is a guest post from Tomotaka Inoue, Data Analyst at Leverages. Founded in 2005, Leverages offers job staffing and web tools—Levtech and Levwell—for the IT and healthcare industries, serving both companies seeking talent and job seekers who are in the market for their next role. Inspired by a data point showing a proportional correlation […]

Stream VPC flow logs to Amazon OpenSearch Service via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs enable you to track the IP traffic going to and from the network interfaces in your VPC for your workloads. Analyzing VPC logs helps […]