Category: Learning Levels

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy and operate OpenSearch and legacy Elasticsearch clusters, cost-effectively, at scale in the AWS Cloud. The service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more by offering the latest versions of OpenSearch, support […]

Amazon QuickSight users now can add bookmarks in dashboards to save customized dashboard preferences into a list of bookmarks for easy one-click access to specific views of the dashboard without having to manually make multiple filter and parameter changes every time. Combined with the “Share this view” functionality, you can also now share your bookmark […]

A data lake is a centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. You can keep your data as is in your object store or file-based storage without having to first structure the data. Additionally, you can run different types of analytics against your loosely formatted data […]

Nowadays many customers are following a multi-cloud strategy. They might choose to use various cloud-managed services, such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instances, to perform data analytics tasks, but still use traditional extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools to integrate and process the data. However, traditional ETL tools may […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. IMM (Institutional Money Market) is a mutual fund that invests in highly liquid instruments, cash, and cash equivalents. IMM funds are large financial intermediaries that are crucial to financial stability in the US. Due to its criticality, IMM funds are highly regulated under the security […]

In today’s world, organizations are collecting an unprecedented amount of data from all kinds of different data sources, such as transactional data stores, clickstreams, log data, IoT data, and more. This data is often in different formats, such as structured data or unstructured data, and is usually referred to as the three Vs of big […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and deliver insights to everyone in your organization or even with your customers and partners. You can make your data come to life with rich interactive charts and create beautiful dashboards to be shared with thousands of users, either […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. In recent evolution in data lake technologies, it became popular to bring ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) transactions on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can achieve that by introducing open-source data lake formats such as Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake. […]

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. This post is co-written by Kanti Singh, Director of Data & Analytics at Fresenius Medical Care. Fresenius Medical Care is the world’s leading provider of kidney care […]

May 2025: This post was reviewed and the CloudFormation template was updated for accuracy Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) runs Apache Kafka clusters for you in the cloud. Although using cloud services means you don’t have to manage racks of servers any more, we take advantage of rack aware features in Apache […]