AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Learning Levels
How Amazon GTTS runs large-scale ETL jobs on AWS using Amazon MWAA
The Amazon Global Transportation Technology Services (GTTS) team owns a set of products called INSITE (Insights Into Transportation Everywhere). These products are user-facing applications that solve specific business problems across different transportation domains: network topology management, capacity management, and network monitoring. As of this writing, GTTS serves around 10,000 customers globally on a monthly basis, […]
Build a real-time analytics solution with Apache Pinot on AWS
In this, we will provide a step-by-step guide showing you how you can build a real-time OLAP datastore on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Apache Pinot on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and do near real-time visualization using Tableau. You can use Apache Pinot for batch processing use cases as well but, in this post, we will focus on a near real-time analytics use case.
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless cost-effective search capabilities, at any scale
We’re excited to announce the new lower entry cost for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. With support for half (0.5) OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs) for indexing and search workloads, the entry cost is cut in half. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that you can use to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities […]
Improve Apache Kafka scalability and resiliency using Amazon MSK tiered storage
Since the launch of tiered storage for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), customers have embraced this feature for its ability to optimize storage costs and improve performance. In previous posts, we explored the inner workings of Kafka, maximized the potential of Amazon MSK, and delved into the intricacies of Amazon MSK tiered […]
Create a customizable cross-company log lake for compliance, Part I: Business Background
As builders, sometimes you want to dissect a customer experience, find problems, and figure out ways to make it better. That means going a layer down to mix and match primitives together to get more comprehensive features and more customization, flexibility, and freedom. In this post, we introduce Log Lake, a do-it-yourself data lake based on logs from CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail.
Federating access to Amazon DataZone with AWS IAM Identity Center and Okta
Many customers rely today on Okta or other identity providers (IdPs) to federate access to their technology stack and tools. With federation, security teams can centralize user management in a single place, which helps simplify and brings agility to their day-to-day operations while keeping highest security standards. To help develop a data-driven culture, everyone inside […]
Get started with the new Amazon DataZone enhancements for Amazon Redshift
In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations are seeking ways to streamline their data management processes and unlock the full potential of their data assets, while controlling access and enforcing governance. That’s why we introduced Amazon DataZone. Amazon DataZone is a powerful data management service that empowers data engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and business users […]
Monitoring Apache Iceberg metadata layer using AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, and AWS CloudWatch
In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources. Data lakes provide a unified repository for organizations to store and use […]
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 […]