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Category: AWS Step Functions

Automate AWS Clean Rooms querying and dashboard publishing using AWS Step Functions and Amazon QuickSight – Part 2

Public health organizations need access to data insights that they can quickly act upon, especially in times of health emergencies, when data needs to be updated multiple times daily. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, access to timely data insights was critically important for public health agencies worldwide as they coordinated emergency response efforts. Up-to-date […]

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Disaster recovery strategies for Amazon MWAA – Part 1

In the dynamic world of cloud computing, ensuring the resilience and availability of critical applications is paramount. Disaster recovery (DR) is the process by which an organization anticipates and addresses technology-related disasters. For organizations implementing critical workload orchestration using Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA), it is crucial to have a DR plan […]

Enable metric-based and scheduled scaling for Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

Thousands of developers use Apache Flink to build streaming applications to transform and analyze data in real time. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. It’s highly available and scalable, delivering high throughput and low latency for the most demanding stream-processing applications. Monitoring and scaling your applications is critical […]

Build efficient ETL pipelines with AWS Step Functions distributed map and redrive feature

AWS Step Functions is a fully managed visual workflow service that enables you to build complex data processing pipelines involving a diverse set of extract, transform, and load (ETL) technologies such as AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift. You can visually build the workflow by wiring individual data pipeline tasks and configuring payloads, retries, […]

Unstructured Data Management - AWS Native Architecture

Unstructured data management and governance using AWS AI/ML and analytics services

In this post, we discuss how AWS can help you successfully address the challenges of extracting insights from unstructured data. We discuss various design patterns and architectures for extracting and cataloging valuable insights from unstructured data using AWS. Additionally, we show how to use AWS AI/ML services for analyzing unstructured data.

Automate legacy ETL conversion to AWS Glue using Cognizant Data and Intelligence Toolkit (CDIT) – ETL Conversion Tool

In this post, we describe how Cognizant’s Data & Intelligence Toolkit (CDIT)- ETL Conversion Tool can help you automatically convert legacy ETL code to AWS Glue quickly and effectively. We also describe the main steps involved, the supported features, and their benefits.

Operational Data Processing Framework for Modern Data Architectures

Simplify operational data processing in data lakes using AWS Glue and Apache Hudi

AWS has invested in native service integration with Apache Hudi and published technical contents to enable you to use Apache Hudi with AWS Glue (for example, refer to Introducing native support for Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg on AWS Glue for Apache Spark, Part 1: Getting Started). In AWS ProServe-led customer engagements, the use cases we work on usually come with technical complexity and scalability requirements. In this post, we discuss a common use case in relation to operational data processing and the solution we built using Apache Hudi and AWS Glue.

Build an ETL process for Amazon Redshift using Amazon S3 Event Notifications and AWS Step Functions

In this post we discuss how we can build and orchestrate in a few steps an ETL process for Amazon Redshift using Amazon S3 Event Notifications for automatic verification of source data upon arrival and notification in specific cases. And we show how to use AWS Step Functions for the orchestration of the data pipeline. It can be considered as a starting point for teams within organizations willing to create and build an event driven data pipeline from data source to data warehouse that will help in tracking each phase and in responding to failures quickly. Alternatively, you can also use Amazon Redshift auto-copy from Amazon S3 to simplify data loading from Amazon S3 into Amazon Redshift.

Empower your Jira data in a data lake with Amazon AppFlow and AWS Glue

In the world of software engineering and development, organizations use project management tools like Atlassian Jira Cloud. Managing projects with Jira leads to rich datasets, which can provide historical and predictive insights about project and development efforts. Although Jira Cloud provides reporting capability, loading this data into a data lake will facilitate enrichment with other […]

Extract time series from satellite weather data with AWS Lambda

Extracting time series on given geographical coordinates from satellite or Numerical Weather Prediction data can be challenging because of the volume of data and of its multidimensional nature (time, latitude, longitude, height, multiple parameters). This type of processing can be found in weather and climate research, but also in applications like photovoltaic and wind power. […]