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Many customers are interested in boosting productivity in their software development lifecycle by using generative AI. Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CodeWhisperer, an AI coding companion that uses foundational models under the hood to improve software developer productivity. With Amazon CodeWhisperer, you can quickly accept the top suggestion, view more suggestions, or […]

With Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), you can build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. To process streaming data, organizations either use multiple Kafka clusters based on their application groupings, usage scenarios, compliance requirements, and other factors, or a dedicated Kafka cluster for the entire organization. It […]

Kafka quotas are integral to multi-tenant Kafka clusters. They prevent Kafka cluster performance from being negatively affected by poorly behaved applications overconsuming cluster resources. Furthermore, they enable the central streaming data platform to be operated as a multi-tenant platform and used by downstream and upstream applications across multiple business lines. Kafka supports two types of quotas: […]

With the recent introduction of Amazon Security Lake, it has never been simpler to access all your security-related data in one place. Whether it’s findings from AWS Security Hub, DNS query data from Amazon Route 53, network events such as VPC Flow Logs, or third-party integrations provided by partners such as Barracuda Email Protection, Cisco […]

In the second post of the series, we discussed some core concepts of the Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) tiered storage feature and explained how read and write operations work in a tiered storage enabled cluster. This post focuses on how to properly size your MSK tiered storage cluster, which metrics to […]

In the first post of the series, we described some core concepts of Apache Kafka cluster sizing, the best practices for optimizing the performance, and the cost of your Kafka workload. This post explains how the underlying infrastructure affects Kafka performance when you use Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) tiered storage. We […]

Amazon Redshift is a widely used, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytic workloads. Customers are looking for tools that make it easier to migrate from other data warehouses, such as Google BigQuery, to Amazon Redshift to […]

An event-driven architecture is a software design pattern in which decoupled applications can asynchronously publish and subscribe to events via an event broker. By promoting loose coupling between components of a system, an event-driven architecture leads to greater agility and can enable components in the system to scale independently and fail without impacting other services. […]

In a data warehouse, a dimension is a structure that categorizes facts and measures in order to enable users to answer business questions. To illustrate an example, in a typical sales domain, customer, time or product are dimensions and sales transactions is a fact. Attributes within the dimension can change over time—a customer can change […]

The value of data is time sensitive. Real-time processing makes data-driven decisions accurate and actionable in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days. Change data capture (CDC) refers to the process of identifying and capturing changes made to data in a database and then delivering those changes in real time to a downstream system. […]