Category: Announcements

Today, we’re announcing timelines for end of Standard Support and Extended Support for legacy Elasticsearch versions up to 6.7, Elasticsearch versions 7.1 through 7.8, OpenSearch versions from 1.0 through 1.2, and OpenSearch versions 2.3 through 2.9 available on Amazon OpenSearch Service.

Amazon DataZone recently announced the expansion of data analysis and visualization options for your project-subscribed data within Amazon DataZone using the Amazon Athena JDBC driver. In this post, you learn how the recent enhancements in Amazon DataZone facilitate a seamless connection with Tableau. By integrating Tableau with the comprehensive data governance capabilities of Amazon DataZone, we’re empowering data consumers to quickly and seamlessly explore and analyze their governed data.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Tens of thousands of customers today rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries, making it […]

Today, we are announcing dedicated coordinator nodes for Amazon OpenSearch Service domains deployed on managed clusters. When you use Amazon OpenSearch Service to create OpenSearch domains, the data nodes serve dual roles of coordinating data-related requests like indexing requests, and search requests, and of doing the work of processing the requests – indexing documents and […]

This post explores how BMW implemented AWS Lake Formation’s fine-grained access control (FGAC) in the Cloud Data Hub and how this saves them up to 25% on compute and storage costs. By using AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control capabilities, BMW has transparently implemented finer data access management within the Cloud Data Hub. The integration of Lake Formation has enabled data stewards to scope and grant granular access to specific subsets of data, reducing costly data duplication.

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’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, which enables you to run high-performance analytics on your DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with little to no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. As data is written into a DynamoDB table, it’s seamlessly made available in Amazon Redshift, eliminating the need to build and maintain complex data pipelines.

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to end support for Governed Tables, effective December 31, 2024, to focus on open source transactional table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Linux Foundation Delta Lake. This decision stems from customer preference for these open source solutions, which offer ACID-compliant transactions, compaction, time travel, and other features previously provided by Governed Tables.

Over the last year, Amazon Redshift added several performance optimizations for data lake queries across multiple areas of query engine such as rewrite, planning, scan execution and consuming AWS Glue Data Catalog column statistics. In this post, we highlight the performance improvements we observed using industry standard TPC-DS benchmarks. Overall execution time of TPC-DS 3 TB benchmark improved by 3x. Some of the queries in our benchmark experienced up to 12x speed up.

Today the Linux Foundation announced the OpenSearch Software Foundation. As part of the creation of the OpenSearch Foundation, AWS has transferred ownership of OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation. At the launch of the project in April of 2021, in introducing OpenSearch, we spoke of our desire to “ensure users continue to have a secure, high-quality, fully open source search and analytics suite with a rich roadmap of new and innovative functionality.” We’ve maintained that desire and commitment, and with this transfer, are deepening that commitment, and bringing in the broader community with open governance to help with that goal.