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Introducing AWS Glue serverless Spark UI for better monitoring and troubleshooting

Today, we are pleased to announce serverless Spark UI built into the AWS Glue console. You can now use Spark UI easily as it’s a built-in component of the AWS Glue console, enabling you to access it with a single click when examining the details of any given job run. There’s no infrastructure setup or teardown required. AWS Glue serverless Spark UI is a fully-managed serverless offering and generally starts up in a matter of seconds. Serverless Spark UI makes it significantly faster and easier to get jobs working in production because you have ready access to low level details for your job runs.

Speed up queries with the cost-based optimizer in Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open source frameworks, supporting open table file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. You can analyze data or build applications from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake and 30 data sources, including on-premises […]

Decentralize LF-tag management with AWS Lake Formation

In today’s data-driven world, organizations face unprecedented challenges in managing and extracting valuable insights from their ever-expanding data ecosystems. As the number of data assets and users grow, the traditional approaches to data management and governance are no longer sufficient. Customers are now building more advanced architectures to decentralize permissions management to allow for individual […]

Use generative AI with Amazon EMR, Amazon Bedrock, and English SDK for Apache Spark to unlock insights

In this era of big data, organizations worldwide are constantly searching for innovative ways to extract value and insights from their vast datasets. Apache Spark offers the scalability and speed needed to process large amounts of data efficiently. Amazon EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data solution for petabyte-scale data processing, interactive analytics, and machine […]

Introducing shared VPC support on Amazon MWAA

In this post, we demonstrate automating deployment of Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) using customer-managed endpoints in a VPC, providing compatibility with shared, or otherwise restricted, VPCs. Data scientists and engineers have made Apache Airflow a leading open source tool to create data pipelines due to its active open source community, familiar […]

Configure dynamic tenancy for Amazon OpenSearch Dashboards

Amazon OpenSearch Service securely unlocks real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data for use cases like application monitoring, log analytics, observability, and website search. In this post, we talk about new configurable dashboards tenant properties. OpenSearch Dashboards tenants in Amazon OpenSearch Service are spaces for saving index patterns, visualizations, dashboards, and other […]

Introducing Amazon MWAA support for Apache Airflow version 2.7.2 and deferrable operators

Today, we are announcing the availability of Apache Airflow version 2.7.2 environments and support for deferrable operators on Amazon MWAA. In this post, we provide an overview of deferrable operators and triggers, including a walkthrough of an example showcasing how to use them. We also delve into some of the new features and capabilities of Apache Airflow, and how you can set up or upgrade your Amazon MWAA environment to version 2.7.2.

Deploy Amazon QuickSight dashboards to monitor AWS Glue ETL job metrics and set alarms

No matter the industry or level of maturity within AWS, our customers require better visibility into their AWS Glue usage. Better visibility can lend itself to gains in operational efficiency, informed business decisions, and further transparency into your return on investment (ROI) when using the various features available through AWS Glue. As your company grows, […]

An automated approach to perform an in-place engine upgrade in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Software upgrades bring new features and better performance, and keep you current with the software provider. However, upgrades for software services can be difficult to complete successfully, especially when you can’t tolerate downtime and when the new version’s APIs introduce breaking changes and deprecation that you must remediate. This post shows you how to upgrade […]

Orchestrate Amazon EMR Serverless jobs with AWS Step functions

Amazon EMR Serverless provides a serverless runtime environment that simplifies the operation of analytics applications that use the latest open source frameworks, such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive. With EMR Serverless, you don’t have to configure, optimize, secure, or operate clusters to run applications with these frameworks. You can run analytics workloads at any scale with automatic […]