AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Artificial Intelligence
How SikSin improved customer engagement with AWS Data Lab and Amazon Personalize
This post is co-written with Byungjun Choi and Sangha Yang from SikSin. SikSin is a technology platform connecting customers with restaurant partners serving their multiple needs. Customers use the SikSin platform to search and discover restaurants, read and write reviews, and view photos. From the restaurateurs’ perspective, SikSin enables restaurant partners to engage and acquire […]
How BookMyShow saved 80% in costs by migrating to an AWS modern data architecture
This is a guest post co-authored by Mahesh Vandi Chalil, Chief Technology Officer of BookMyShow. BookMyShow (BMS), a leading entertainment company in India, provides an online ticketing platform for movies, plays, concerts, and sporting events. Selling up to 200 million tickets on an annual run rate basis (pre-COVID) to customers in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, […]
Near-real-time fraud detection using Amazon Redshift Streaming Ingestion with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Redshift ML
The importance of data warehouses and analytics performed on data warehouse platforms has been increasing steadily over the years, with many businesses coming to rely on these systems as mission-critical for both short-term operational decision-making and long-term strategic planning. Traditionally, data warehouses are refreshed in batch cycles, for example, monthly, weekly, or daily, so that […]
Create, Train and Deploy Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) models using Amazon Redshift ML
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed and petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse which is being used by tens of thousands of customers to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytics workloads. Amazon Redshift comes with a feature called Amazon Redshift ML which puts the power of machine learning in the hands of every […]
Data: The genesis for modern invention
It only takes one groundbreaking invention—one iconic idea that solves a widespread pain point for customers—to create or transform an industry forever. From the invention of the telegraph, to the discovery of GPS, to the earliest cloud computing services, history is filled with examples of these “eureka” moments that continue to have long-lasting impacts on […]
Design a data mesh with event streaming for real-time recommendations on AWS
This blog post was co-authored with Federico Piccinini. The data landscape has been changing in recent years: there is a proliferation of entities producing and consuming large quantities of data within companies, and for most of them defining a proper data strategy has become of fundamental importance. A modern data strategy gives you a comprehensive […]
How Fresenius Medical Care aims to save dialysis patient lives using real-time predictive analytics on AWS
This post is co-written by Kanti Singh, Director of Data & Analytics at Fresenius Medical Care. Fresenius Medical Care is the world’s leading provider of kidney care products and services, and operates more than 2,600 dialysis centers in the US alone. The company provides comprehensive solutions for people living with chronic kidney disease and related […]
Build a multilingual dashboard with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight is a serverless business intelligence (BI) service used by organizations of any size to make better data-driven decisions. QuickSight dashboards can also be embedded into SaaS apps and web portals to provide interactive dashboards, natural language query or data analysis capabilities to app users seamlessly. The QuickSight Demo Central contains many dashboards, feature showcase […]
Use a linear learner algorithm in Amazon Redshift ML to solve regression and classification problems
Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse delivering the best price–performance. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytics workloads. Amazon Redshift ML, powered by Amazon SageMaker, makes it easy for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers […]
Secure data movement across Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift using role chaining and ASSUMEROLE
Data lakes use a ring of purpose-built data services around a central data lake. Data needs to move between these services and data stores easily and securely. The following are some examples of such services: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which stores structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data […]