AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Advanced (300)
Accelerate SQL development with SageMaker Data Agent in Query Editor
In this post, you learn how to use Data Agent in Query Editor to explore data, build multi-step analyses, recover from errors, and summarize results using a public education dataset.
Schedule notebook runs in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
In this post, we walk you through the new scheduling and orchestrating capabilities for notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio.
How Zynga scaled multi-warehouse data governance with Amazon Redshift federated permissions
In this post, we walk through how Zynga adopted Amazon Redshift federated permissions and AWS IAM Identity Center to enforce consistent, tiered data access across provisioned and serverless Amazon Redshift environments without building custom synchronization pipelines.
Automate data discovery and centralized management with AWS Glue Data Catalog
In this post, we show you how to tackle data discovery, classification, and governance across your databases, data warehouses, and object storage to regain visibility and control over your data landscape.
A systematic approach to benchmarking SQL processing engines on AWS
Selecting the right SQL processing solution for large-scale data analytics is a critical decision for organizations. As data volumes grow exponentially, the technology landscape has evolved to offer diverse options for processing and analyzing this information efficiently. This post presents a systematic framework for evaluating and benchmarking SQL processing engines on AWS, using Apache JMeter to conduct practical performance testing at scale.
Build petabyte-scale synthetic test data with Amazon EMR on EC2
As data volumes grow from terabytes to petabytes, the architecture for generating synthetic data must evolve to meet increasing demands for scale, performance, and data quality. In this post, we show how you can build a scalable synthetic data generation solution using Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, and the Faker library.
Securing client confidentiality at scale: Automated data discovery and governed analytics for legal workloads
In this post, we show you a reference architecture that automates sensitive data discovery across legal document repositories on Amazon Web Services (AWS), demonstrate how to capture structured findings as a compliance dataset, and guide you through building a governed analytics workspace that maintains your security boundaries. You walk away with a practical model for building security and analytics into the same lifecycle, without moving documents outside their system of record.
Improve DynamoDB analytics with AWS Glue zero-ETL schema and partition controls
In this post, you learn how to replicate Amazon DynamoDB data to Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 through a zero-ETL integration. We walk through the challenges that the DynamoDB nested, schema-flexible data model introduces for analytics workloads, and show you how to configure schema unnesting and data partitioning for a sample product catalog table. We also cover how to query the replicated data in Amazon Athena using standard SQL.
Using Apache Sedona with AWS Glue to process billions of daily points from a geospatial dataset
In this post, we explore how to use Apache Sedona with AWS Glue to process and analyze massive geospatial datasets.
Building unified data pipelines with Apache Iceberg and Apache Flink
In this post, you build a unified pipeline using Apache Iceberg and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink that replaces the dual-pipeline approach. This walkthrough is for intermediate AWS users who are comfortable with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and AWS Glue Data Catalog but new to streaming from Apache Iceberg tables.









