Category: News

In this post, we demonstrate how to launch a high availability instance fleet cluster using the newly redesigned Amazon EMR console, as well as using an AWS CloudFormation template. We also go over the basic concepts of Hadoop high availability, EMR instance fleets, the benefits and trade-offs of high availability, and best practices for running resilient EMR clusters.

Amazon OpenSearch Service launches a modernized operational analytics experience that can provide comprehensive observability spanning multiple data sources, so that you can gain insights from OpenSearch and other integrated data sources in one place. The launch also introduces OpenSearch Workspaces that provides tailored experience for popular use cases and supports access control, so that you can create a private space for your use case and share it only to your collaborators.

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication support through the  Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more. This integration empowers data users to access and analyze governed data within Amazon DataZone using familiar tools, boosting both productivity and flexibility.

Today, we are excited to announce an enhancement to the Amazon MWAA integration with the Airflow REST API. This improvement streamlines the ability to access and manage your Airflow environments and their integration with external systems, and allows you to interact with your workflows programmatically. The Airflow REST API facilitates a wide range of use cases, from centralizing and automating administrative tasks to building event-driven, data-aware data pipelines. In this post, we discuss the enhancement and present several use cases that the enhancement unlocks for your Amazon MWAA environment.

We are excited to announce the preview of API-driven, OpenLineage-compatible data lineage in Amazon DataZone to help you capture, store, and visualize lineage of data movement and transformations of data assets on Amazon DataZone. With the Amazon DataZone OpenLineage-compatible API, domain administrators and data producers can capture and store lineage events beyond what is available […]

Fine-grained access control is a crucial aspect of data security for modern data lakes and data warehouses. As organizations handle vast amounts of data across multiple data sources, the need to manage sensitive information has become increasingly important. Making sure the right people have access to the right data, without exposing sensitive information to unauthorized […]

What users expect from search engines has evolved over the years. Just returning lexically relevant results quickly is no longer enough for most users. Now users seek methods that allow them to get even more relevant results through semantic understanding or even search through image visual similarities instead of textual search of metadata. Amazon OpenSearch […]