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Manage Amazon Redshift provisioned clusters with Terraform

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it straightforward and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing extract, transform, and load (ETL); business intelligence (BI); and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data per […]

Configure SAML federation with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless and Keycloak

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless version of Amazon OpenSearch Service, a fully managed open search and analytics platform. On Amazon OpenSearch Service you can run petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without the heavy lifting of managing the underlying OpenSearch Service clusters and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless supports workloads up to 30TB of data for time-series […]

Streamline your data governance by deploying Amazon DataZone with the AWS CDK

Managing data across diverse environments can be a complex and daunting task. Amazon DataZone simplifies this so you can catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and third-party sources. Many organizations manage vast amounts of data assets owned by various teams, creating a complex landscape that poses challenges for scalable data […]

Protein similarity search using ProtT5-XL-UniRef50 and Amazon OpenSearch Service

A protein is a sequence of amino acids that, when chained together, creates a 3D structure. This 3D structure allows the protein to bind to other structures within the body and initiate changes. This binding is core to the working of many drugs. A common workflow within drug discovery is searching for similar proteins, because […]

Introducing Amazon MWAA support for Apache Airflow version 2.9.2

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that significantly improves security and availability, and reduces infrastructure management overhead when setting up and operating end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. Today, we are announcing the availability of Apache Airflow version 2.9.2 environments on Amazon MWAA. Apache Airflow […]

Run Apache XTable on Amazon MWAA to translate open table formats

In this post, we show you how to get started with Apache XTable on AWS and how you can use it in a batch pipeline orchestrated with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA). To understand how XTable and similar solutions work, we start with a high-level background on metadata management in an OTF and then dive deeper into XTable and its usage.

Amazon DataZone enhances data discovery with advanced search filtering

Amazon DataZone, a fully managed data management service, helps organizations catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers. We are excited to announce the introduction of advanced search filtering capabilities in the Amazon DataZone business data catalog. With the improved rendering of glossary terms, you can now navigate large sets of […]

Implement disaster recovery with Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. This enables you to use your data to acquire new insights for your business and customers. The objective of a disaster recovery plan is […]

Access Amazon Redshift data from Salesforce Data Cloud with Zero Copy Data Federation

This post is co-authored by Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Director of Product, Salesforce Data Cloud. In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations collect a wealth of data across various touch points and unify it in a central data warehouse or a data lake to deliver business insights. This data is primarily used for analytical and machine learning purposes, […]

Run Apache Spark 3.5.1 workloads 4.5 times faster with Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark

The Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark is a performance-optimized runtime that is 100% API compatible with open source Apache Spark. It offers faster out-of-the-box performance than Apache Spark through improved query plans, faster queries, and tuned defaults. Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR Serverless, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS, and Amazon EMR on AWS […]