Category: Announcements

Today, we are announcing broker removal capability for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) provisioned clusters, which lets you remove multiple brokers from your provisioned clusters. You can now reduce your cluster’s storage and compute capacity by removing sets of brokers, with no availability impact, data durability risk, or disruption to your data streaming […]

Apache Airflow is a popular platform for enterprises looking to orchestrate complex data pipelines and workflows. Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed service that streamlines the setup and operation of secure and highly available Airflow environments in the cloud. In this post, we’re excited to introduce two new features that […]

Today, we’re excited to announce general availability of Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue. Amazon Q data integration, a new generative AI-powered capability of Amazon Q Developer, enables you to build data integration pipelines using natural language. This reduces the time and effort you need to learn, build, and run data integration jobs using […]

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed service for Apache Airflow that streamlines the setup and operation of the infrastructure to orchestrate data pipelines in the cloud. Customers use Amazon MWAA to manage the scalability, availability, and security of their Apache Airflow environments. As they design more intensive, complex, and ever-growing […]

Today’s fast-paced world demands timely insights and decisions, which is driving the importance of streaming data. Streaming data refers to data that is continuously generated from a variety of sources. The sources of this data, such as clickstream events, change data capture (CDC), application and service logs, and Internet of Things (IoT) data streams are […]

Last week, we announced the general availability of the integration between Amazon DataZone and AWS Lake Formation hybrid access mode. In this post, we share how this new feature helps you simplify the way you use Amazon DataZone to enable secure and governed sharing of your data in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. We also […]

Today, we are pleased to announce that Amazon DataZone is now able to present data quality information for data assets. This information empowers end-users to make informed decisions as to whether or not to use specific assets. In this post, we discuss the latest features of Amazon DataZone for data quality, the integration between Amazon DataZone and AWS Glue Data Quality and how you can import data quality scores produced by external systems into Amazon DataZone via API.

In Part 2 of this series, we discussed how to enable AWS Glue job observability metrics and integrate them with Grafana for real-time monitoring. Grafana provides powerful customizable dashboards to view pipeline health. However, to analyze trends over time, aggregate from different dimensions, and share insights across the organization, a purpose-built business intelligence (BI) tool […]

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 […]

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.