AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Announcements

The next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless: Built from the ground up for agents

Today, we are announcing a ground-up re-architecture of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless that delivers up to 20 times faster autoscaling, scale to zero, and up to 60% lower cost than provisioning clusters for peak load. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed, open source retrieval engine that unifies vector, lexical, hybrid, and agentic search, delivering low-latency, accurate and relevant results. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is an automatically scaled deployment option. The new architecture decouples compute from storage. The service provisions infrastructure in seconds instead of minutes, and scales compute all the way to zero when your application is idle. In this post, we walk through the new architecture, what it means for your applications, and how to get started with a hands-on tutorial.

Automate deployment of data and AI applications with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD CLI

The CI/CD CLI for Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (aws-smus-cicd-cli) is an open source command line tool that automates deployment of multi-service data and AI applications across pipeline stages. Data teams define their application once in a YAML manifest, DevOps teams deploy with a single command, and the CLI handles configuration substitution, dependency ordering, and resource provisioning automatically. In this post, we walk through how the CI/CD CLI works, show you how to deploy a real application across environments, and demonstrate how it fits into your existing CI/CD workflows.

Build streaming applications on Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink with AI-assisted guidance

In this post, we walk through installing the Power and Skill, using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to build a Kinesis Data Stream-to-Kinesis Data Stream streaming pipeline, and migrating an existing application to Flink 2.2. You can follow along with this use case to see how the Managed Service for Apache Flink Kiro Power can help you build a resilient, performant application grounded in best practices.

Migrate third-party and self-managed Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon MSK Express brokers with Amazon MSK Replicator

In this post, we walk you through how to replicate Apache Kafka data from your external Apache Kafka deployments to Amazon MSK Express brokers using MSK Replicator. You will learn how to configure authentication on your external cluster, establish network connectivity, set up bidirectional replication, and monitor replication health to achieve a low-downtime migration.

Filter catalog assets using custom metadata search filters in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio

Finding the right data assets in large enterprise catalogs can be challenging, especially when thousands of datasets are cataloged with organization-specific metadata. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom metadata search filters. In this post, you learn how to create custom metadata forms, publish assets with metadata values, and use structured filters to discover those assets.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless introduces collection groups to optimize cost for multi-tenant workloads

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the collection groups feature for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. With this feature you can reduce compute costs for multi-tenant workloads while creating secure tenant boundaries through per-tenant encryption, giving you the flexibility to balance cost efficiency with the exact level of isolation and security your applications requires.

Amazon Athena adds 1-minute reservations and new capacity control features

Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data using SQL. With Athena, there’s no infrastructure to manage, you simply submit queries and get results. Capacity Reservations is a feature of Athena that addresses the need to run critical workloads by providing dedicated serverless capacity for workloads you specify. In this post, we highlight three new capabilities that make Capacity Reservations more flexible and easier to manage: reduced minimums for fine-grained capacity adjustments, an autoscaling solution for dynamic workloads, and capacity cost and performance controls.

Get started faster with one-click onboarding, serverless notebooks, and AI agents in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio

Using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio serverless notebooks, AI-assisted development, and unified governance, you can speed up your data and AI workflows across data team functions while maintaining security and compliance. In this post, we walk you through how these new capabilities in SageMaker Unified Studio can help you consolidate your fragmented data tools, reduce time to insight, and collaborate across your data teams.

Apache Spark 4.0.1 preview now available on Amazon EMR Serverless

In this post, we explore key benefits, technical capabilities, and considerations for getting started with Spark 4.0.1 on Amazon EMR Serverless. With the emr-spark-8.0-preview release label, you can evaluate new SQL capabilities, Python API improvements, and streaming enhancements in your existing EMR Serverless environment.