Category: Announcements

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. In AWS Glue, you can use Apache Spark, an open-source, distributed processing system for your data integration tasks and big data workloads. Apache Spark utilizes in-memory caching and optimized […]

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 […]

Customers tell us they want to have stronger performance and lower costs for their data analytics applications and workloads. Customers also want to use AWS as a platform that hosts managed versions of their favorite open-source projects, which will frequently adopt the latest features from the open-source communities. With Amazon Athena engine version 3, we […]

This post was last updated August 2022, to include new experiences such as Analysis and Embedding. Amazon QuickSight launches the new look and feel for your dashboards. In this post, we will walk through the changes and improvements introduced with the new look. The new dashboard experience includes the following improvements: Simplified toolbar Discoverable visual […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fast and cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and deliver insights to everyone in your organization without any servers or infrastructure. QuickSight dashboards can also be embedded into applications and portals to deliver insights to external stakeholders. And QuickSight Q lets end-users simply ask questions in […]

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we announced the preview of native support for JSON and semi-structured data in Amazon Redshift. This includes a new data type, SUPER, which allows you to store JSON and other semi-structured data in Amazon Redshift tables, and support for the PartiQL query language, which allows you to seamlessly query and process […]