Category: Announcements

We recently announced new enhancements to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless that can scan and search source data sizes of up to 6 TB. At launch, OpenSearch Serverless supported searching one or more indexes within a collection, with the total combined size of up to 1 TB. With the support for 6 TB source data, you can now scale up your log analytics, machine learning applications, and ecommerce data more effectively. With OpenSearch Serverless, you can enjoy the benefits of these expanded limits without having to worry about sizing, monitoring your usage, or manually scaling an OpenSearch domain.

Amazon EMR is the cloud big data solution for petabyte-scale data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning using open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. Customers asked us for features that would further improve the resiliency and scalability of their Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters, including their large, long-running clusters. We have […]

We are pleased to announce the preview release of the vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. The vector engine provides a simple, scalable, and high-performing similarity search capability in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless that makes it easy for you to build modern machine learning (ML) augmented search experiences and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications without having […]

We are excited to announce the General Availability of AWS Glue Data Quality. Our journey started by working backward from our customers who create, manage, and operate data lakes and data warehouses for analytics and machine learning. To make confident business decisions, the underlying data needs to be accurate and recent. Otherwise, data consumers lose […]

AWS has been named a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI) Platforms. Previously, AWS was positioned as a Niche player in the Magic Quadrant for ABI platforms. The Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluates 20 ABI companies based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. In our view, […]

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 […]