Category: Analytics

Organizations today want to make data-driven decisions. The data could lie in multiple source systems, such as line of business applications, log files, connected devices, social media, and many more. As organizations adopt software as a service (SaaS) applications, data becomes increasingly fragmented and trapped in different “data islands.” To make decision-making easier, organizations are […]

Maintaining customer data privacy, protection against intellectual property loss, and compliance with data protection laws are essential objectives of today’s organizations. To protect data against security threats, vulnerabilities within the organization, malicious software, or cyber criminality, organizations are increasingly encrypting their data. Although you can enable server-side encryption in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), […]

While creating data lakes on the cloud, the data catalog is crucial to centralize metadata and make the data visible, searchable, and queryable for users. With the recent exponential growth of data volume, it becomes much more important to optimize data layout and maintain the metadata on cloud storage to keep the value of data […]

Data quality plays an important role while building an extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline for sending data to downstream analytical applications and machine learning (ML) models. The analogy “garbage in, garbage out” is apt at describing why it’s important to filter out bad data before further processing. Continuously monitoring data quality and comparing it […]

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 is a guest blog post co-written by Rajagopal Mahendran, Development Manager at the Optus IT Innovation Team. Optus is part of The Singtel group, which operates […]

Every business has a set of key metrics that stakeholders focus on to make the most accurate, data-driven decisions, such as sales per week, inventory turnover rate, daily website visitors, and so on. With threshold-based alerts in Amazon QuickSight, we’re making it simpler than ever for consumers of QuickSight dashboards to stay informed about their […]

Many useful business insights can arise from analyzing customer preferences, behavior, and usage patterns. With this information, businesses can innovate faster and improve the customer experience, leading to better engagement and accelerating product adoption. More and more businesses are looking for ways to securely store and restrict access to customer data, which may include personally […]

When data analysts and data scientists prepare data for analysis, they often rely on periodically generated data produced by upstream services, such as labeling datasets from Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth or Cost and Usage Reports from AWS Billing and Cost Management. Alternatively, they can regularly upload such data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) […]

An integral part of DevOps is adopting the culture of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). This enables teams to securely store and version code, maintain parity between development and production environments, and achieve end-to-end automation of the release cycle, including building, testing, and deploying to production. In essence, development teams follow CI/CD processes to […]

Amazon Customer Service solves exciting and challenging customer care problems for Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer. In 2021, the Amazon Customer Service Technology team upgraded its dense-compute nodes (dc2.8xlarge) to the Amazon Redshift RA3 instance family (ra3.16xlarge). Moving to the most advanced Amazon Redshift architecture enabled the team to reduce its infrastructure costs, improve […]