AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Best Practices
Gain insights from historical location data using Amazon Location Service and AWS analytics services
Many organizations around the world rely on the use of physical assets, such as vehicles, to deliver a service to their end-customers. By tracking these assets in real time and storing the results, asset owners can derive valuable insights on how their assets are being used to continuously deliver business improvements and plan for future […]
How the GoDaddy data platform achieved over 60% cost reduction and 50% performance boost by adopting Amazon EMR Serverless
This is a guest post co-written with Brandon Abear, Dinesh Sharma, John Bush, and Ozcan IIikhan from GoDaddy. GoDaddy empowers everyday entrepreneurs by providing all the help and tools to succeed online. With more than 20 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their ideas, build a professional website, attract customers, […]
Real-time cost savings for Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
When running Apache Flink applications on Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, you have the unique benefit of taking advantage of its serverless nature. This means that cost-optimization exercises can happen at any time—they no longer need to happen in the planning phase. With Managed Service for Apache Flink, you can add and remove compute […]
Best practices to implement near-real-time analytics using Amazon Redshift Streaming Ingestion with Amazon MSK
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, scalable cloud data warehouse that accelerates your time to insights with fast, straightforward, and secure analytics at scale. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries, making it the most widely used cloud data warehouse. You can run […]
Petabyte-scale log analytics with Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion
Organizations often need to manage a high volume of data that is growing at an extraordinary rate. At the same time, they need to optimize operational costs to unlock the value of this data for timely insights and do so with a consistent performance. With this massive data growth, data proliferation across your data stores, […]
Use AWS Glue ETL to perform merge, partition evolution, and schema evolution on Apache Iceberg
As enterprises collect increasing amounts of data from various sources, the structure and organization of that data often need to change over time to meet evolving analytical needs. However, altering schema and table partitions in traditional data lakes can be a disruptive and time-consuming task, requiring renaming or recreating entire tables and reprocessing large datasets. […]
Simplify data streaming ingestion for analytics using Amazon MSK and Amazon Redshift
Towards the end of 2022, AWS announced the general availability of real-time streaming ingestion to Amazon Redshift for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), eliminating the need to stage streaming data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) before ingesting it into Amazon Redshift. Streaming ingestion from Amazon […]
Combine AWS Glue and Amazon MWAA to build advanced VPC selection and failover strategies
AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it straightforward to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. AWS Glue customers often have to meet strict security requirements, which sometimes involve locking down the network connectivity allowed to the job, or running inside […]
Simplify authentication with native LDAP integration on Amazon EMR
Many companies have corporate identities stored inside identity providers (IdPs) like Active Directory (AD) or OpenLDAP. Previously, customers using Amazon EMR could integrate their clusters with Active Directory by configuring a one-way realm trust between their AD domain and the EMR cluster Kerberos realm. For more details, refer to Tutorial: Configure a cross-realm trust with […]
Improve your ETL performance using multiple Redshift warehouses to write to your data sets
Now, at Amazon Redshift, we are announcing the general availability of multi-data warehouse writes through data sharing. This new capability allows you to achieve better performance for extract, transform, and load (ETL) workloads by using different warehouses of different types and sizes based on your workload needs.









