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This post demonstrates how to build a secure search application using Amazon OpenSearch Service and JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). We discuss the basics of OpenSearch Service and JWTs and how to implement user authentication and authorization through an existing identity provider (IdP). The focus is on enforcing fine-grained access control based on user roles and permissions.

In this post, we first briefly review how planner statistics are collected and what impact they have on queries. Then, we discuss Amazon Redshift features that deliver optimal plans on Iceberg tables and Parquet data even with the lack of statistics. Finally, we review some example queries that now execute faster because of these latest Amazon Redshift innovations.

In this post, we walk you through the implementation of MSK Express brokers, highlighting their core features, benefits, and best practices for rapid Kafka scaling.

In this, we will provide a step-by-step guide showing you how you can build a real-time OLAP datastore on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Apache Pinot on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and do near real-time visualization using Tableau. You can use Apache Pinot for batch processing use cases as well but, in this post, we will focus on a near real-time analytics use case.

Since the launch of tiered storage for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), customers have embraced this feature for its ability to optimize storage costs and improve performance. In previous posts, we explored the inner workings of Kafka, maximized the potential of Amazon MSK, and delved into the intricacies of Amazon MSK tiered […]

EchoStar, a connectivity company providing television entertainment, wireless communications, and award-winning technology to residential and business customers throughout the US, deployed the first standalone, cloud-native Open RAN 5G network on AWS public cloud. This post provides an overview of real-time data analysis with Amazon Redshift and how EchoStar uses it to ingest hundreds of megabytes per second. As data sources and volumes grew across its network, EchoStar migrated from a single Redshift Serverless workgroup to a multi-warehouse architecture with live data sharing.

Multimodal search enables both text and image search capabilities, transforming how users access data through search applications. Consider building an online fashion retail store: you can enhance the users’ search experience with a visually appealing application that customers can use to not only search using text but they can also upload an image depicting a […]

October 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Glue is a fully managed, serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses Apache Spark as one of its backend processing engines (as of this writing, you can use Python Shell or Spark). Data skew occurs when the data being […]

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, scalable cloud data warehouse that accelerates your time to insights with fast, straightforward, and secure analytics at scale. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries, making it the most widely used cloud data warehouse. You can run […]

As enterprises collect increasing amounts of data from various sources, the structure and organization of that data often need to change over time to meet evolving analytical needs. However, altering schema and table partitions in traditional data lakes can be a disruptive and time-consuming task, requiring renaming or recreating entire tables and reprocessing large datasets. […]