Category: Announcements

The Amazon Redshift integration with AWS Lambda provides the capability to create Amazon Redshift Lambda user-defined functions (UDFs). Because Lambda UDFs provide these significant advantages in integration, flexibility, scalability, and security, we will be ending support for Python UDFs in Amazon Redshift. In this post, we walk you through how to migrate your existing Python UDFs to Lambda UDFs, set up monitoring and cost evaluations, and review key considerations for a smooth transition.

We’re excited to announce AWS Glue Data Catalog usage metrics. The usage metrics is a new feature that provides native integration with Amazon CloudWatch. In this post, we demonstrate how to access these metrics, provide a step-by-step walkthrough, and set up meaningful alarms.

We’re thrilled to introduce managed query results, a new Athena feature that automatically stores, secures, and manages the lifecycle of query result data for you at no additional cost. In this post, we demonstrate how to get started with managed query results and, by removing the undifferentiated effort spent on query result management, how Athena helps you get insights from your data in fewer steps than before.

OpenSearch UI has been adopted by thousands of customers for various use cases since its launch in November 2024. Exciting customer stories and feedback have helped shape our feature improvements. As we complete 6 months since its general availability, we are sharing major enhancements that have improved OpenSearch UI’s capability, especially in observability and security analytics, in this post.

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC) with AWS Lake Formation, using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and session tags to simplify data access, grant creation, and maintenance. In this post, we demonstrate how to get started with SageMaker Lakehouse with ABAC.

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse is a unified, open, and secure data lakehouse that now seamlessly integrates with Amazon S3 Tables, the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support. In this post, we guide you how to use various analytics services using the integration of SageMaker Lakehouse with S3 Tables.

We’re excited to introduce a new enhancement to the search experience in Amazon SageMaker Catalog, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker—exact match search using technical identifiers. In this post, we demonstrate how to streamline data discovery with precise technical identifier search in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio.

Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports metadata rules allowing organizations to enforce metadata standards across data publishing and subscription workflows. In this post, we guide you through two workflows: setting up metadata enforcement rules for a specific domain and publishing an asset or data product in a catalog, and setting up metadata enforcement rules for a specific domain and subscribing to an asset or data product that is owned by a project within that domain.

Amazon OpenSearch Service also offers a multi-tiered storage solution to its customers in the form of UltraWarm and Cold tiers. In this post, we discuss this new capability and its use cases, and provide a cost-benefit analysis in different scenarios.

AWS re:Invent 2024, the flagship annual conference, took place December 2–6, 2024, in Las Vegas, bringing together thousands of cloud enthusiasts, innovators, and industry leaders from around the globe. Analytics remained one of the key focus areas this year, with significant updates and innovations aimed at helping businesses harness their data more efficiently and accelerate insights. In this post, we walk you through the top analytics announcements from re:Invent 2024 and explore how these innovations can help you unlock the full potential of your data.