Category: Analytics

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, widely popular cloud data warehouse that allows you to process exabytes of data across your data warehouse, operational database, and data lake using standard SQL. It offers different node types to accommodate various workloads; you can choose from RA3, DC2, and DS2 depending on your requirements. RA3 is […]

This post is co-written with Steven Wasserman of Vertex, Inc. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. […]

Log analytics is the most popular use case for Amazon OpenSearch Service, and with the modern-day advent of the architectural tenet to log everything all the time, it can be a challenge to store and analyze this exponential data growth effectively with a minimal price-to-performance tag. With a proliferating number of applications, log volume to […]

This is a guest post by Ori Nakar, Principal Engineer at Imperva. In their own words, “Imperva is a large cyber security company and an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner, who protects web applications and data assets. Imperva protects over 6,200 enterprises worldwide and many of them use Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) […]

Many customers are gathering large amount of data, generated from different sources such as IoT devices, clickstream events from websites, and more. To efficiently extract insights from the data, you have to perform various transformations and apply different business logic on your data. These processes require complex workflow management to schedule jobs and manage dependencies […]

This is a guest blog post by AWS Data Hero Stephane Maarek.  AWS launched IAM Access Control for Amazon MSK, which is a security option offered at no additional cost that simplifies cluster authentication and Apache Kafka API authorization using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles or user policies to control access. This eliminates […]

May 2022: This post was reviewed for accuracy. This is a joint blog post co-authored with Anu Jain, Graham Person, and Paul Conroy from JP Morgan Chase.  Most modern organizations recognize that their data benefits their entire enterprise. Data has value to the individual business process that produces it, but data’s additional potential can be […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL. Amazon Redshift offers up to three times better price performance than any other cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of […]

March 2023: You can now use AWS Glue Data Quality to measure and manage the quality of your data. AWS Glue Data Quality is built on DeeQu and it offers a simplified user experience for customers who want to this open-source package. Refer to the blog and documentation for additional details. In our previous post, we […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Recently, we launched AWS Glue custom connectors for Amazon OpenSearch Service, which provides the capability to ingest data into Amazon OpenSearch Service with just a few clicks. You can now use Amazon OpenSearch Service as a data store for your […]