AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Announcements

Introducing enhanced functionality for worker configuration management in Amazon MSK Connect

Amazon MSK Connect is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka Connect. With a few clicks, MSK Connect allows you to deploy connectors that move data between Apache Kafka and external systems. MSK Connect now supports the ability to delete MSK Connect worker configurations, tag resources, and manage worker configurations and custom plugins using AWS […]

Run Trino queries 2.7 times faster with Amazon EMR 6.15.0

In this blog, we compare Amazon EMR 6.15.0 with open source Trino 426 and show that TPC-DS queries ran up to 2.7 times faster on Amazon EMR 6.15.0 Trino 426 compared to open source Trino 426. Later, we explain a few of the AWS-developed performance optimizations that contribute to these results.

Announcing data filtering for Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift

AWS is now announcing data filtering on zero-ETL integrations, enabling you to bring in selective data from the database instance on zero-ETL integrations between Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon Redshift. This feature allows you to select individual databases and tables to be replicated to your Redshift data warehouse for analytics use cases. In this post, we provide an overview of use cases where you can use this feature, and provide step-by-step guidance on how to get started with near real time operational analytics using this feature.

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink version 1.18

Apache Flink is an open source distributed processing engine, offering powerful programming interfaces for both stream and batch processing, with first-class support for stateful processing and event time semantics. Apache Flink supports multiple programming languages, Java, Python, Scala, SQL, and multiple APIs with different level of abstraction, which can be used interchangeably in the same […]

Introducing Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

Today, we are launching Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion. Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that helps you build, deploy, and manage cloud resources efficiently. OpenSearch Ingestion is a fully managed, serverless data collector that delivers real-time log, metric, and trace data to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collections. […]

Introducing Amazon MWAA support for Apache Airflow version 2.8.1

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it straightforward to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. Organizations use Amazon MWAA to enhance their business workflows. For example, C2i Genomics uses Amazon MWAA in their data platform to orchestrate the validation […]

Multi-Warehouse ETL Architecture. Two workloads--a Purchase History ETL job ingesting 10M rows nightly and users running 25 read queries per hour--using a 32 RPU serverless workgroup to read from and write to the database Customer DB. It shows a separate workload--a Web Interactions ETL job ingesting 400M rows/hour--using a separate 128 RPU serverless workgroup to write to the database Customer DB.

Improve your ETL performance using multiple Redshift warehouses for writes (Preview)

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale, cloud data warehouse that tens of thousands of customers rely on to power their analytics workloads. Thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift read data sharing to enable instant, granular, and fast data access across Redshift provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups. This allows you to scale your read workloads to […]

Track Amazon OpenSearch Service configuration changes more easily with new visibility improvements

Amazon OpenSearch Service offers multiple domain configuration settings to meet your workload-specific requirements. As part of standard service operations, you may be required to update these configuration settings on a regular basis. Recently, Amazon OpenSearch Service launched visibility improvements that allow you to track configuration changes more effectively. We’ve introduced granular and more descriptive configuration […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service search enhancements: 2023 roundup

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 […]

New Amazon CloudWatch log class to cost-effectively scale your AWS Glue workloads

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easier to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. You can use AWS Glue to create, run, and monitor data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipelines and catalog your assets across multiple data stores. One of […]