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Category: Amazon DynamoDB

How to build a front-line concussion monitoring system using AWS IoT and serverless data lakes – Part 2

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. In part 1 of this series, we demonstrated how to build a data pipeline in support of a data lake. We used key AWS services such as Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis […]

How to build a front-line concussion monitoring system using AWS IoT and serverless data lakes – Part 1

In this two-part series, we show you how to build a data pipeline in support of a data lake. We use key AWS services such as Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Analytics, Kinesis Data Firehose, and AWS Lambda. In part 2, we focus on generating simple inferences from that data that can support RTP parameters.

How Goodreads offloads Amazon DynamoDB tables to Amazon S3 and queries them using Amazon Athena

In this post, we show you how to export data from a DynamoDB table, convert it into a more efficient format with AWS Glue, and query the data with Athena. This approach gives you a way to pull insights from your data stored in DynamoDB.

Analyze data in Amazon DynamoDB using Amazon SageMaker for real-time prediction

I’ll describe how to read the DynamoDB backup file format in Data Pipeline, how to convert the objects in S3 to a CSV format that Amazon ML can read, and I’ll show you how to schedule regular exports and transformations using Data Pipeline.

How to retain system tables’ data spanning multiple Amazon Redshift clusters and run cross-cluster diagnostic queries

In this blog post, I present a solution that exports system tables from multiple Amazon Redshift clusters into an Amazon S3 bucket. This solution is serverless, and you can schedule it as frequently as every five minutes. The AWS CloudFormation deployment template that I provide automates the solution setup in your environment. The system tables’ data in the Amazon S3 bucket is partitioned by cluster name and query execution date to enable efficient joins in cross-cluster diagnostic queries.

Building a Real World Evidence Platform on AWS

Deriving insights from large datasets is central to nearly every industry, and life sciences is no exception. To combat the rising cost of bringing drugs to market, pharmaceutical companies are looking for ways to optimize their drug development processes. They are turning to big data analytics to better quantify the effect that their drug compounds […]

Analysis of Top-N DynamoDB Objects using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

If you run an operation that continuously generates a large amount of data, you may want to know what kind of data is being inserted by your application. The ability to analyze data intake quickly can be very valuable for business units, such as operations and marketing. For many operations, it’s important to see what […]

Near Zero Downtime Migration from MySQL to DynamoDB

Many companies consider migrating from relational databases like MySQL to Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed, fast, highly scalable, and flexible NoSQL database service. For example, DynamoDB can increase or decrease capacity based on traffic, in accordance with business needs. The total cost of servicing can be optimized more easily than for the typical media-based RDBMS. […]