Category: Analytics

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. This post presents a reference architecture and optimization strategies for building serverless data analytics solutions on AWS using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. In addition, this post shows […]

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS provides a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows you to run analytics workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This is an attractive option because it allows you to run applications on a common pool of resources without having to provision infrastructure. In addition, you can use Amazon […]

This post is co-written with Mat Sharpe, Technical Lead, AWS & Systems Engineering from Integral Ad Science. Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. The company’s mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world’s leading brands, publishers, and platforms. IAS […]

This is the fourth in a series of posts. We’re excited to share dozens of new features to automate your schema conversion; preserve your investment in existing scripts, reports, and applications; accelerate query performance; and potentially reduce your overall cost to migrate to Amazon Redshift. Check out the previous posts in this series: Accelerate your […]

This is the third post in a multi-part series. We’re excited to share dozens of new features to automate your schema conversion; preserve your investment in existing scripts, reports, and applications; accelerate query performance; and reduce your overall cost to migrate to Amazon Redshift. Check out all the posts in this series: Accelerate your data […]

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows you to run Apache Spark on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). If you run open-source Apache Spark on Amazon EKS, you can now use Amazon EMR to automate provisioning and management, and run Apache Spark up to three times faster. […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. This is a guest post co-written by Rahul Monga, Principal Software Engineer at Rapid7. Rapid7 InsightVM is a vulnerability assessment and management product that provides visibility into the risks present across an […]

Financial services organizations use data from various sources to discover new insights and improve trading decisions. Finding the right dataset and getting access to the data can frequently be a time-consuming process. For example, to analyze daily trading activity, analysts need to find a list of available databases and tables, identify its owner’s contact information, […]

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. Flink Forward Global 2021 is a 2-day virtual conference for the Apache Flink and stream processing communities. Apache Flink is an open-source distributed engine for processing data […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, either within QuickSight itself, or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) apps. QuickSight Enterprise Edition recently added row-level security (RLS) using tags, a […]