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AWS Lake Formation makes it easier to centrally govern, secure, and share data for analytics with familiar database-style grant features managed through the Glue Data Catalog. Lake Formation provides a single place to define fine-grained access control on catalog resources. These permissions are granted to the principals by a data lake admin, and integrated engines […]

Amazon DynamoDB is ideal for applications that need a flexible NoSQL database with low read and write latencies and the ability to scale storage and throughput up or down as needed without code changes or downtime. You can use DynamoDB for use cases including mobile apps, gaming, digital ad serving, live voting, audience interaction for live […]

Organizations are working towards centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on-premises, third-party, and applications on AWS. Many organizations use identity providers (IdPs) based on OIDC or SAML-based protocols like Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and manage user authentication along with authorization centrally. This authorizes users to access Amazon QuickSight […]

In this post, we show how to use Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Athena Federated Query to build dashboards and visualizations on data that is stored in Microsoft Azure Synapse databases. Organizations today use data stores that are best suited for the applications they build. Additionally, they may also continue to use some of their legacy […]

Amazon Athena now enables data analysts and data engineers to enjoy the easy-to-use, interactive, serverless experience of Athena with Apache Spark in addition to SQL. You can now use the expressive power of Python and build interactive Apache Spark applications using a simplified notebook experience on the Athena console or through Athena APIs. For interactive […]

Today’s global, data-driven organizations treat data as an asset and use it across different lines of business (LOBs) to drive timely insights and better business decisions. Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to securely share live, transactionally consistent data in one Amazon Redshift data warehouse with another Amazon Redshift data warehouse within the same AWS […]

We recently announced the preview release of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service, which makes it easy for you to run large-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. It automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, either within the QuickSight interface, or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) applications or web portals. We’re excited to announce the availability […]

This is a guest post co-written with Ankit Jhalaria from GoDaddy. GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs by providing all the help and tools to succeed online. With more than 20 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, and manage their work. GoDaddy is […]

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows organizations to run Apache Spark on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With EMR on EKS, the Spark jobs run on the Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark. This increases the performance of your Spark jobs so that they run faster […]