AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Database

Best practices using AWS SCT and AWS Snowball to migrate from Teradata to Amazon Redshift

This is a guest post from ZS. In their own words, “ZS is a professional services firm that works closely with companies to help develop and deliver products and solutions that drive customer value and company results. ZS engagements involve a blend of technology, consulting, analytics, and operations, and are targeted toward improving the commercial […]

How to delete user data in an AWS data lake

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important aspect of today’s technology world, and processing data in compliance with GDPR is a necessity for those who implement solutions within the AWS public cloud. One article of GDPR is the “right to erasure” or “right to be forgotten” which may require you to implement a solution […]

Stream CDC into an Amazon S3 data lake in Parquet format with AWS DMS

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Most organizations generate data in real time and ever-increasing volumes. Data is captured from a variety of sources, such as transactional and reporting databases, application logs, customer-facing websites, and external feeds. Companies […]

Fast and predictable performance with serverless compilation using Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Customers tell us that they want extremely fast query response times so they can make equally fast decisions. This post presents the recently launched, […]

How Aruba Networks built a cost analysis solution using AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon QuickSight

February 2023 Update: Console access to the AWS Data Pipeline service will be removed on April 30, 2023. On this date, you will no longer be able to access AWS Data Pipeline though the console. You will continue to have access to AWS Data Pipeline through the command line interface and API. Please note that […]

Top 10 performance tuning techniques for Amazon Redshift

Customers use Amazon Redshift for everything from accelerating existing database environments, to ingesting weblogs for big data analytics. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale, massively parallel data warehouse that offers simple operations and high performance. Amazon Redshift provides an open standard JDBC/ODBC driver interface, which allows you to connect your existing business intelligence (BI) tools and reuse existing analytics queries. Amazon Redshift can run any type of data model, from a production transaction system third-normal-form model to star and snowflake schemas, data vault, or simple flat tables. This post takes you through the most common performance-related opportunities when adopting Amazon Redshift and gives you concrete guidance on how to optimize each one. 

Speed up data ingestion on Amazon Redshift with BryteFlow

This is a guest post by Pradnya Bhandary, Co-Founder and CEO at Bryte Systems. Data can be transformative for an organization. How and where you store your data for analysis and business intelligence is therefore an especially important decision that each organization needs to make. Should you choose an on-premises data warehouse solution or embrace […]

Stream, transform, and analyze XML data in real time with Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Redshift

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. When we look at […]

Scale your cloud data warehouse and reduce costs with the new Amazon Redshift RA3 nodes with managed storage

One of our favorite things about working on Amazon Redshift, the cloud data warehouse service at AWS, is the inspiring stories from customers about how they’re using data to gain business insights. Many of our recent engagements have been with customers upgrading to the new instance type, Amazon Redshift RA3 with managed storage. In this […]