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Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it simple to run and scale analytics without having to manage the instance type, instance size, lifecycle management, pausing, resuming, and so on. It automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse compute capacity to deliver fast performance for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads, and you pay only for what […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. December 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to remove the dependency on the AWS Lambda function according to the latest version in Splunk AWS Add-on (7.3.0). In September 2017, during the […]

You can use the Amazon EMR Steps API to submit Apache Hive, Apache Spark, and others types of applications to an EMR cluster. You can invoke the Steps API using Apache Airflow, AWS Steps Functions, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), all the AWS SDKs, and the AWS Management Console. Jobs submitted with the […]

Many organizations build data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using a modern architecture for a scalable and cost-effective solution. Open-source storage formats like Parquet and Avro are commonly used, and data is stored in these formats as immutable files. As the data lake is expanded to additional use cases, there are still […]

AWS Glue now offers integration with Git, an open-source version control system widely used across the developer community. Thanks to this integration, you can incorporate your existing DevOps practices on AWS Glue jobs. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that helps you create jobs based on Apache Spark or Python to perform extract, […]

Today, many companies are building real-time applications to improve their customer experience and get immediate insights from their data before it loses its value. As the result, companies have been facing increasing demand to provide data streaming services such as Apache Kafka for developers. To meet this demand, companies typically start with a small- or […]

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. Stream data processing allows you to act on data in real time. Real-time data analytics can help you have on-time and optimized responses while improving overall customer […]

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. It’s serverless, so there’s no infrastructure to set up or manage. This post provides a step-by-step guide to build a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using AWS […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy and operate OpenSearch and legacy Elasticsearch clusters, cost-effectively, at scale in the AWS Cloud. The service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more by offering the latest versions of OpenSearch, support […]

A data lake is a centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. You can keep your data as is in your object store or file-based storage without having to first structure the data. Additionally, you can run different types of analytics against your loosely formatted data […]