Category: AWS Big Data

Consolidating data from a work management tool like Jira and integrating this data with other data sources like ServiceNow, GitHub, Jenkins, and Time Entry Systems enables end-to-end visibility of different aspects of the software development lifecycle and helps keep your projects on schedule and within budget. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object […]

Before you can create visuals and dashboards that convey useful information, you need to transform and prepare the underlying data. The range and complexity of data transformation steps required depends on the visuals you would like in your dashboard. Often, the data transformation process is time-consuming and highly iterative, especially when you are working with […]

Amazon EMR now supports M6g, C6g and R6g instances with Amazon EMR versions 6.1.0, 5.31.0 and later. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom designed by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). On Graviton2 […]

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. Businesses in ecommerce have the challenge of measuring their ad-to-order conversion ratio for ads or promotional campaigns displayed on a webpage. Tracking the number of users that […]

AWS Glue DataBrew is a new visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to clean and normalize data to prepare it for analytics and machine learning (ML). In this post, we examine a sample ML use case and show how to use DataBrew and a Jupyter notebook to […]

Data lakes have been providing a level of flexibility to organizations unparalleled to anything before them. Having the ability to load and query data in place—and in its natural form—has led to an explosion of data lake deployments that have allowed organizations to accelerate against their data strategy faster than ever before. Most organizations have […]

When deploying data lakes on AWS, you can use multiple AWS accounts to better separate different projects or lines of business. In this post, we see how the AWS Lake Formation cross-account capabilities simplify securing and managing distributed data lakes across multiple accounts through a centralized approach, providing fine-grained access control to the AWS Glue […]

Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition now offers a new, session capacity-based pricing model starting at $250/month, with annual commitment options that provide scalable pricing for embedded analytics and BI rollouts to 100s of 1000s of users. QuickSight now also supports embedding dashboards in apps, websites, and wikis without the need to provision and manage users (readers) […]

June 2025: This post has been reviewed for accuracy and the following updates have been made: added new function to retrieve SQL query in the Lambda code; upgraded Python’s run time and version of sqlparse in the Lambda deployment package; added and removed actions in the Lambda policy; updated the CloudFormation template to reflect policy […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. It’s a serverless platform with no need to set up or manage infrastructure. Athena scales automatically—running queries in parallel—so results are fast, even with large datasets and complex queries. You […]