AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Compute

Automate secure access to Amazon MWAA environments using existing OpenID Connect single-sign-on authentication and authorization

Customers use Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) to run Apache Airflow at scale in the cloud. They want to use their existing login solutions developed using OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers with Amazon MWAA; this allows them to provide a uniform authentication and single sign-on (SSO) experience using their adopted identity providers (IdP) […]

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. […]

Centralize near-real-time governance through alerts on Amazon Redshift data warehouses for sensitive queries

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud that delivers powerful and secure insights on all your data with the best price-performance. With Amazon Redshift, you can analyze your data to derive holistic insights about your business and your customers. In many organizations, one or multiple Amazon Redshift data warehouses […]

Introducing Amazon EMR on EKS job submission with Spark Operator and spark-submit

Amazon EMR on EKS provides a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows organizations to run open-source big data frameworks on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With EMR on EKS, Spark applications run on the Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark. This performance-optimized runtime offered by Amazon EMR makes your Spark jobs run fast […]

How Encored Technologies built serverless event-driven data pipelines with AWS

This post is a guest post co-written with SeonJeong Lee, JaeRyun Yim, and HyeonSeok Yang from Encored Technologies. Encored Technologies (Encored) is an energy IT company in Korea that helps their customers generate higher revenue and reduce operational costs in renewable energy industries by providing various AI-based solutions. Encored develops machine learning (ML) applications predicting […]

Build efficient, cross-Regional, I/O-intensive workloads with Dask on AWS

Welcome to the era of data. The sheer volume of data captured daily continues to grow, calling for platforms and solutions to evolve. Services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) offer a scalable solution that adapts yet remains cost-effective for growing datasets. The Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) uses the capabilities of Amazon […]

How SOCAR handles large IoT data with Amazon MSK and Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

This is a guest blog post co-written with SangSu Park and JaeHong Ahn from SOCAR.  As companies continue to expand their digital footprint, the importance of real-time data processing and analysis cannot be overstated. The ability to quickly measure and draw insights from data is critical in today’s business landscape, where rapid decision-making is key. […]

How the BMW Group analyses semiconductor demand with AWS Glue

This is a guest post co-written by Maik Leuthold and Nick Harmening from BMW Group. The BMW Group is headquartered in Munich, Germany, where the company oversees 149,000 employees and manufactures cars and motorcycles in over 30 production sites across 15 countries. This multinational production strategy follows an even more international and extensive supplier network. Like many automobile companies across the world, the […]

How Huron built an Amazon QuickSight Asset Catalogue with AWS CDK Based Deployment Pipeline

This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron. Having an accurate and up-to-date inventory of all technical assets helps an organization ensure it can keep track of all its resources with metadata information such as their assigned owners, last updated date, used by whom, how frequently, and more. It helps engineers, […]

Reference guide to build inventory management and forecasting solutions on AWS

Inventory management is a critical function for any business that deals with physical products. The primary challenge businesses face with inventory management is balancing the cost of holding inventory with the need to ensure that products are available when customers demand them. The consequences of poor inventory management can be severe. Overstocking can lead to […]