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This is a guest post by AWS Data Hero and co-founder of Conduktor, Stephane Maarek. Deploying Apache Kafka on AWS is now easier, thanks to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). In a few clicks, it provides you with a production-ready Kafka cluster on which you can run your applications and create data […]

Amazon QuickSight Q uses machine learning (ML) to enable any user to ask questions about business data in natural language and receive accurate answers with relevant visualizations in seconds. Today, Amazon QuickSight announces support for two new question types that simplify and scale complex analytical tasks using natural language: “forecast” and “why.” In this post, […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse. You have the flexibility to choose from provisioned and serverless compute modes. You can start loading and querying large datasets conveniently in Amazon Redshift using Amazon Redshift Query Editor v2, a web-based SQL client application. Query Editor v2 empowers your technical and business teams […]

Organizations are placing a high priority on data integration, especially to support analytics, machine learning (ML), business intelligence (BI), and application development initiatives. Data is growing exponentially and is generated by increasingly diverse data sources. Data integration becomes challenging when processing data at scale and the inherent heavy lifting associated with infrastructure required to manage […]

For data lake customers who need to discover petabytes of data, AWS Glue crawlers are a popular way to scan data in the background, so you can focus on using the data to make better intelligent decisions. You may also have data in data warehouses such as Snowflake and want the ability to discover the […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. SOCAR is the leading Korean mobility company with strong competitiveness in car-sharing. SOCAR has become a comprehensive mobility platform in collaboration with Nine2One, an e-bike sharing service, […]

Organizations are adopting Apache Kafka and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) to capture and analyze data in real-time. Amazon MSK allows you to build and run production applications on Apache Kafka without needing Kafka infrastructure management expertise or having to deal with the complex overheads associated with running Apache Kafka on your […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service. If you plan to deploy enterprise-grade QuickSight dashboards, measuring user adoption and usage patterns is an important ingredient for the success of your BI investment. For example, knowing the usage patterns like geo location, department, and job role can help you fine-tune your dashboards […]

In the first post of this series, we discussed the need of a metadata management solution for organizations. We used DataHub as an open-source metadata platform for metadata management and deployed it using AWS managed services with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). In this post, we focus on how to populate technical metadata […]

Many organizations are establishing enterprise data warehouses, data lakes, or a modern data architecture on AWS to build data-driven products. As the organization grows, the number of publishers and subscribers to data and the volume of data keeps increasing. Additionally, different varieties of datasets are introduced (structured, semistructured, and unstructured). This can lead to metadata […]