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Using embedded analytics from Amazon QuickSight can simplify the process of equipping your application with functional visualizations without any complex development. There are multiple ways to embed QuickSight dashboards into application. In this post, we look at how it can be done using React and the Amazon QuickSight Embedding SDK. Dashboard consumers often don’t have […]

November 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to include the latest enhancements in Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift on general availability (GA). Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift was announced at AWS re:Invent 2022 and is now generally available (GA) for Aurora MySQL 3.05.0 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.32) and higher […]

AWS Glue interactive sessions allow engineers to build, test, and run data preparation and analytics workloads in an interactive notebook. Interactive sessions provide isolated development environments, take care of the underlying compute cluster, and allow for configuration to stop idling resources. Glue interactive sessions provides default recommended configurations, and also allows users to customize the […]

Large organizations processing huge volumes of data usually store it in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and query the data to make data-driven business decisions using distributed analytics engines such as Amazon Athena. If you simply run queries without considering the optimal data layout on Amazon S3, it results in a high volume of […]

Using Amazon OpenSearch Service’s vector database capabilities, you can implement semantic search, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with LLMs, recommendation engines, and search in rich media. Learn how.

In today’s world, customers manage vast amounts of data in their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, which requires convoluted data pipelines to continuously understand the changes in the data layout and make them available to consuming systems. AWS Glue crawlers provide a straightforward way to catalog data in the AWS Glue Data […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it simple to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch clusters at scale in the AWS Cloud. Last year, we introduced Shard Indexing Backpressure and admission control, which monitors cluster resources and incoming traffic to selectively reject requests that would otherwise pose stability risks like out of memory […]

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML) powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud that supports identity federation in both Standard and Enterprise editions. Organizations are working toward centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on-premises and third-party. Many organizations use Keycloak as their identity provider […]

August 2023: This post was updated to include Apache Iceberg support in Amazon Redshift. Disclaimer: Due to rapid advancements in AWS service support for open table formats, recent developments might not yet be reflected in this post. For the latest information on AWS service support for open table formats, refer to the official AWS service […]

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses rely heavily on their data to make informed decisions. This data is often stored and analyzed using various tools, such as Amazon OpenSearch Service, a powerful search and analytics service offered by AWS. OpenSearch Service provides real-time insights into your data to support use cases like interactive log analytics, […]