AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Customer Enablement

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 SOCAR built a streaming data pipeline to process IoT data for real-time analytics and control

SOCAR is the leading Korean mobility company with strong competitiveness in car-sharing. SOCAR has become a comprehensive mobility platform in collaboration with Nine2One, an e-bike sharing service, and Modu Company, an online parking platform. Backed by advanced technology and data, SOCAR solves mobility-related social problems, such as parking difficulties and traffic congestion, and changes the […]

How a blockchain startup built a prototype solution to solve the need of analytics for decentralized applications with AWS Data Lab

This post is co-written with Dr. Quan Hoang Nguyen, CTO at Fantom Foundation. Here at Fantom Foundation (Fantom), we have developed a high performance, highly scalable, and secure smart contract platform. It’s designed to overcome limitations of the previous generation of blockchain platforms. The Fantom platform is permissionless, decentralized, and open source. The majority of […]

How AWS Data Lab helped BMW Financial Services design and build a multi-account modern data architecture

This post is co-written by Martin Zoellner, Thomas Ehrlich and Veronika Bogusch from BMW Group. BMW Group and AWS announced a comprehensive strategic collaboration in 2020. The goal of the collaboration is to further accelerate BMW Group’s pace of innovation by placing data and analytics at the center of its decision-making. A key element of […]

Introducing Embedded Analytics Data Lab to accelerate integration of Amazon QuickSight analytics into applications

We are excited to announce Embedded Analytics Data Lab (EADL), a no-cost collaborative engagement that helps engineering and development teams cut down time required to launch applications with embedded analytics from Amazon QuickSight in production by providing hands-on guidance and architectural best practices. Embedding rich analytics such as interactive visuals and dashboards directly into applications […]

GDAC architecture

How the Georgia Data Analytics Center built a cloud analytics solution from scratch with the AWS Data Lab

This is a guest post by Kanti Chalasani, Division Director at Georgia Data Analytics Center (GDAC). GDAC is housed within the Georgia Office of Planning and Budget to facilitate governed data sharing between various state agencies and departments. The Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) established the Georgia Data Analytics Center (GDAC) with the intent […]

How Belcorp decreased cost and improved reliability in its big data processing framework using Amazon EMR managed scaling

This is a guest post by Diego Benavides and Luis Bendezú, Senior Data Architects, Data Architecture Direction at Belcorp. Belcorp is one of the main consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies providing cosmetics products in the region for more than 50 years, allocated to around 13 countries in North, Central, and South America (AMER). Born in Peru […]

Design and build a Data Vault model in Amazon Redshift from a transactional database

This blog post was updated in June, 2022 to update the entity relationship diagram. Building a highly performant data model for an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) has historically involved significant design, development, administration, and operational effort. Furthermore, the data model must be agile and adaptable to change while handling the largest volumes of data efficiently. […]

How MEDHOST’s cardiac risk prediction successfully leveraged AWS analytic services

MEDHOST has been providing products and services to healthcare facilities of all types and sizes for over 35 years. Today, more than 1,000 healthcare facilities are partnering with MEDHOST and enhancing their patient care and operational excellence with its integrated clinical and financial EHR solutions. MEDHOST also offers a comprehensive Emergency Department Information System with […]

How the Allen Institute uses Amazon EMR and AWS Step Functions to process extremely wide transcriptomic datasets

This is a guest post by Gautham Acharya, Software Engineer III at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, in partnership with AWS Data Lab Solutions Architect Ranjit Rajan, and AWS Sr. Enterprise Account Executive Arif Khan. The human brain is one of the most complex structures in the universe. Billions of neurons and trillions of […]