AWS Big Data Blog

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Automate your Amazon QuickSight deployment with the new API-based account creation and deletion

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, either within the QuickSight interface, or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) applications or web portals. We’re excited to announce the availability […]

How GoDaddy built a data mesh to decentralize data ownership using AWS Lake Formation

This is a guest post co-written with Ankit Jhalaria from GoDaddy. GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs by providing all the help and tools to succeed online. With more than 20 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, and manage their work. GoDaddy is […]

Get started with data integration from Amazon S3 to Amazon Redshift using AWS Glue interactive sessions

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 […]

Announcing AWS Glue crawler support for Snowflake

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 […]

Use Karpenter to speed up Amazon EMR on EKS autoscaling

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows organizations to run Apache Spark on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With EMR on EKS, the Spark jobs run on the Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark. This increases the performance of your Spark jobs so that they run faster […]

Use an event-driven architecture to build a data mesh on AWS

In this post, we take the data mesh design discussed in Design a data mesh architecture using AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue, and demonstrate how to initialize data domain accounts to enable managed sharing; we also go through how we can use an event-driven approach to automate processes between the central governance account and […]

How Hudl built a cost-optimized AWS Glue pipeline with Apache Hudi datasets

This is a guest blog post co-written with Addison Higley and Ramzi Yassine from Hudl. Hudl Agile Sports Technologies, Inc. is a Lincoln, Nebraska based company that provides tools for coaches and athletes to review game footage and improve individual and team play. Its initial product line served college and professional American football teams. Today, […]

How SOCAR built a streaming data pipeline to process IoT data for real-time analytics and control

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, […]

Field-level security in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is fully open-source search and analytics engine that 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. But what if you have personal identifiable information (PII) data in your log data? How do you control and audit […]

Reduce cost and improve query performance with Amazon Athena Query Result Reuse

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run on datasets at petabyte scale. You can use Athena to query […]