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Build a serverless analytics application with Amazon Redshift and Amazon API Gateway

Serverless applications are a modernized way to perform analytics among business departments and engineering teams. Business teams can gain meaningful insights by simplifying their reporting through web applications and distributing it to a broader audience. Use cases can include the following: Dashboarding – A webpage consisting of tables and charts where each component can offer […]

Automate data lineage on Amazon MWAA with OpenLineage

In modern data architectures, datasets are combined across an organization using a variety of purpose-built services to unlock insights. As a result, data governance becomes a key component for data consumers and producers to know that their data-driven decisions are based on trusted and accurate datasets. One aspect of data governance is data lineage, which […]

Build near real-time logistics dashboards using Amazon Redshift and Amazon Managed Grafana for better operational intelligence

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehousing service that is currently helping tens of thousands of customers manage analytics at scale. It continues to lead price-performance benchmarks, and separates compute and storage so each can be scaled independently and you only pay for what you need. It also eliminates data silos by simplifying access […]

Code conversion from Greenplum to Amazon Redshift: Handling arrays, dates, and regular expressions

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed service for data lakes, data analytics, and data warehouses for startups, medium enterprises, and large enterprises. Amazon Redshift is used by tens of thousands of businesses around the globe for modernizing their data analytics platform. Greenplum is an open-source, massively parallel database used for analytics, mostly for on-premises infrastructure. […]

Build a search application with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

In this post, we demonstrate how to build a simple web-based search application using the recently announced Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easy to run petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without having to think about clusters. The benefit of using OpenSearch Serverless as a backend for your […]

Accelerate your data exploration and experimentation with the AWS Analytics Reference Architecture library

Organizations use their data to solve complex problems by starting small, running iterative experiments, and refining the solution. Although the power of experiments can’t be ignored, organizations have to be cautious about the cost-effectiveness of such experiments. If time is spent creating the underlying infrastructure for enabling experiments, it further adds to the cost. Developers […]

How Novo Nordisk built a modern data architecture on AWS

Novo Nordisk is a leading global pharmaceutical company, responsible for producing life-saving medicines that reach more than 34 million patients each day. They do this following their triple bottom line—that they must strive to be environmentally sustainable, socially sustainable, and financially sustainable. The combination of using AWS and data supports all these targets. Data is […]

Impact of infrastructure failures on shards in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch and legacy Elasticsearch clusters at scale in the AWS Cloud. Amazon OpenSearch Service provisions all the resources for your cluster, launches it, and automatically detects and replaces failed nodes, reducing the overhead of self-managed infrastructures. The service makes […]

Stream VPC flow logs to Amazon OpenSearch Service via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs enable you to track the IP traffic going to and from the network interfaces in your VPC for your workloads. Analyzing VPC logs helps […]

How to get best price performance from your Amazon Redshift Data Sharing deployment

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully-managed data warehouse that enables you to analyze all of your data using standard SQL easily and cost-effectively. Amazon Redshift Data Sharing allows customers to securely share live, transactionally consistent data in one Amazon Redshift cluster with another Amazon Redshift cluster across accounts and regions without needing to […]