AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Announcements

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 […]

Use Amazon EMR with S3 Access Grants to scale Spark access to Amazon S3

Amazon EMR is pleased to announce integration with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Grants that simplifies Amazon S3 permission management and allows you to enforce granular access at scale. With this integration, you can scale job-based Amazon S3 access for Apache Spark jobs across all Amazon EMR deployment options and enforce granular Amazon […]

Large Language Models for sentiment analysis with Amazon Redshift ML (Preview)

Amazon Redshift ML empowers data analysts and database developers to integrate the capabilities of machine learning and artificial intelligence into their data warehouse. Amazon Redshift ML helps to simplify the creation, training, and application of machine learning models through familiar SQL commands. You can further enhance Amazon Redshift’s inferencing capabilities by Bringing Your Own Models […]

Introducing Apache Hudi support with AWS Glue crawlers

Apache Hudi is an open table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to data lakes. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving datasets with transactions while maintaining query performance. Data engineers use Apache Hudi for streaming workloads as well as to create efficient incremental data pipelines. Hudi provides tables, transactions, efficient […]

Introducing persistent buffering for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is a fully managed, serverless pipeline that delivers real-time log, metric, and trace data to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains and OpenSearch Serverless collections. Customers use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines to ingest data from a variety of data sources, both pull-based and push-based. When ingesting data from pull-based sources, such as Amazon Simple […]

Decentralize LF-tag management with AWS Lake Formation

In today’s data-driven world, organizations face unprecedented challenges in managing and extracting valuable insights from their ever-expanding data ecosystems. As the number of data assets and users grow, the traditional approaches to data management and governance are no longer sufficient. Customers are now building more advanced architectures to decentralize permissions management to allow for individual […]