AWS Big Data Blog

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Sharpen your Skill Set with Apache Spark on the AWS Big Data Blog

The AWS Big Data Blog has a large community of authors who are passionate about Apache Spark and who regularly publish content that helps customers use Spark to build real-world solutions. You’ll see content on a variety of topics, including deep-dives on Spark’s internals, building Spark Streaming applications, creating machine learning pipelines using MLlib, and ways […]

Combine NoSQL and Massively Parallel Analytics Using Apache HBase and Apache Hive on Amazon EMR

Ben Snively is a Solutions Architect with AWS Jon Fritz, a Senior Product Manager for Amazon EMR, co-authored this post With today’s launch of Amazon EMR release 4.6, you can now quickly and easily provision a cluster with Apache HBase 1.2. Apache HBase is a massively scalable, distributed big data store in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It is […]

AWS at Strata+Hadoop 2016: Building a Scalable Architecture on AWS to Process Streaming Data

Gone are the days when big data was confined to batch processing.  To remain competitive, companies must be able to analyze real-time data streams in areas such as video streaming, real-time recommendation engines, preventive maintenance, and fraud detection applications. Last month, Siva Raghupathy and Manjeet Chayel presented “Building a scalable architecture for processing streaming data […]

Exploring Geospatial Intelligence using SparkR on Amazon EMR

Gopal Wunnava is a Senior Consultant with AWS Professional Services The number of data sources that use location, such as smartphones and sensory devices used in IoT (Internet of things), is expanding rapidly. This explosion has increased demand for analyzing spatial data. Geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) allows you to analyze data that has geographical or spatial […]

Month in Review: March 2016

March provided another full slate of big data solutions on the AWS Big Data Blog! Take a look at the summaries below for something that catches your interest and share with anyone who’s interested in big data. Will Spark Power the Data behind Precision Medicine? Spark is already known for being a major player in […]

Encrypt Your Amazon Redshift Loads with Amazon S3 and AWS KMS

Russell Nash is a Solutions Architect with AWS Have you been looking for a straightforward way to encrypt your Amazon Redshift data loads? Have you wondered how to safely manage the keys and where to perform the encryption? In this post, I will walk through a solution that meets these requirements by showing you how […]