AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Case Study

How the GoDaddy data platform achieved over 60% cost reduction and 50% performance boost by adopting Amazon EMR Serverless

This is a guest post co-written with Brandon Abear, Dinesh Sharma, John Bush, and Ozcan IIikhan from GoDaddy. GoDaddy empowers everyday entrepreneurs by providing all the help and tools to succeed online. With more than 20 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their ideas, build a professional website, attract customers, […]

Data Ingestion Workflow

How Zoom implemented streaming log ingestion and efficient GDPR deletes using Apache Hudi on Amazon EMR

In today’s digital age, logging is a critical aspect of application development and management, but efficiently managing logs while complying with data protection regulations can be a significant challenge. Zoom, in collaboration with the AWS Data Lab team, developed an innovative architecture to overcome these challenges and streamline their logging and record deletion processes. In […]

How AWS Payments migrated from Redash to Amazon Redshift Query Editor v2

AWS Payments is part of the AWS Commerce Platform (CP) organization that owns the customer experience of paying AWS invoices. It helps AWS customers manage their payment methods and payment preferences, and helps customers make self-service payments to AWS. The Machine Learning, Data and Analytics (MLDA) team at AWS Payments enables data-driven decision-making across payments […]

How GoDaddy built a data mesh to decentralize data ownership using AWS Lake Formation

This is a guest post co-written with Ankit Jhalaria from GoDaddy. GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs by providing all the help and tools to succeed online. With more than 20 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, and manage their work. GoDaddy is […]

How SumUp built a low-latency feature store using Amazon EMR and Amazon Keyspaces

This post was co-authored by Vadym Dolin, Data Architect at SumUp. In their own words, SumUp is a leading financial technology company, operating across 35 markets on three continents. SumUp helps small businesses be successful by enabling them to accept card payments in-store, in-app, and online, in a simple, secure, and cost-effective way. Today, SumUp […]

How William Hill migrated NoSQL workloads at scale to Amazon Keyspaces

Social gaming and online sports betting are competitive environments. The game must be able to handle large volumes of unpredictable traffic while simultaneously promising zero downtime. In this domain, user retention is no longer just desirable, it’s critical. William Hill is a global online gambling company based in London, England, and it is the founding […]

How GE Proficy Manufacturing Data Cloud replatformed to improve TCO, data SLA, and performance

This is post is co-authored by Jyothin Madari, Madhusudhan Muppagowni and Ayush Srivastava from GE. GE Proficy Manufacturing Data Cloud (MDC), part of the GE Digital’s Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) suite of solutions, allows GED’s customers to increase the derived value easily and quickly from the MES by reliably bringing enterprise-wide manufacturing data into the […]

Supercharging Dream11’s Data Highway with Amazon Redshift RA3 clusters

This is a guest post by Dhanraj Gaikwad, Principal Engineer on Dream11 Data Engineering team. Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, with over 120 million users playing fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, futsal, American football, and baseball. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology […]

How Paytm modernized their data pipeline using Amazon EMR

This post was co-written by Rajat Bhardwaj, Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS and Kunal Upadhyay, General Manager at Paytm. Paytm is India’s leading payment platform, pioneering the digital payment era in India with 130 million active users. Paytm operates multiple lines of business, including banking, digital payments, bill recharges, e-wallet, stocks, insurance, lending and […]

Use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to extract data insights with Coralogix

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. This is a guest blog post co-written by Tal Knopf at Coralogix. Digital data is expanding exponentially, and the existing limitations to store and analyze it are constantly being challenged and overcome. […]