AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Customer Solutions

Automate data archival for Amazon Redshift time series tables

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data using standard SQL. Tens of thousands of customers today 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 […]

How AWS Data Lab helped BMW Financial Services design and build a multi-account modern data architecture

This post is co-written by Martin Zoellner, Thomas Ehrlich and Veronika Bogusch from BMW Group. BMW Group and AWS announced a comprehensive strategic collaboration in 2020. The goal of the collaboration is to further accelerate BMW Group’s pace of innovation by placing data and analytics at the center of its decision-making. A key element of […]

How ZS created a multi-tenant self-service data orchestration platform using Amazon MWAA

This is post is co-authored by Manish Mehra, Anirudh Vohra, Sidrah Sayyad, and Abhishek I S (from ZS), and Parnab Basak (from AWS). The team at ZS collaborated closely with AWS to build a modern, cloud-native data orchestration platform. ZS is a management consulting and technology firm focused on transforming global healthcare and beyond. We […]

Fine-grained entitlements in Amazon Redshift: A case study from TrustLogix

This post is co-written with Srikanth Sallaka from TrustLogix as the lead author. TrustLogix is a cloud data access governance platform that monitors data usage to discover patterns, provide insights on least privileged access controls, and manage fine-grained data entitlements across data lake storage solutions like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), data warehouses like […]

Amazon migrates financial reporting to Amazon QuickSight

This is a guest post by from Chitradeep Barman and Yaniv Ackerman  from Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech). Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech) is responsible for financial reporting on Earth’s largest transaction dataset, as the central organization supporting accounting and tax operations across Amazon. Amazon FinTech’s accounting, tax, and business finance teams close books and file taxes […]

How Fresenius Medical Care aims to save dialysis patient lives using real-time predictive analytics on AWS

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. This post is co-written by Kanti Singh, Director of Data & Analytics at Fresenius Medical Care. Fresenius Medical Care is the world’s leading provider of kidney care […]

Removing complexity to improve business performance: How Bridgewater Associates built a scalable, secure, Spark-based research service on AWS

This is a guest post co-written by Sergei Dubinin, Oleksandr Ierenkov, Illia Popov and Joel Thompson, from Bridgewater. Bridgewater’s core mission is to understand how the world works by analyzing the drivers of markets and turning that understanding into high-quality portfolios and investment advice for our clients. Within Bridgewater Technology, we strive to make our […]

How Fannie Mae built a data mesh architecture to enable self-service using Amazon Redshift data sharing

This post is co-written by Kiran Ramineni and Basava Hubli, from Fannie Mae. Amazon Redshift data sharing enables instant, granular, and fast data access across Amazon Redshift clusters without the need to copy or move data around. Data sharing provides live access to data so that users always see the most up-to-date and transactionally consistent […]

How NerdWallet uses AWS and Apache Hudi to build a serverless, real-time analytics platform

This is a guest post by Kevin Chun, Staff Software Engineer in Core Engineering at NerdWallet. NerdWallet’s mission is to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions. This covers a diverse set of topics: from choosing the right credit card, to managing your spending, to finding the best personal loan, to refinancing your mortgage. […]

Forwood Safety uses Amazon QuickSight Q to extend life-saving safety analytics to larger audiences

This is a guest post by Faye Crompton from Forwood Safety. Forwood provides fatality prevention solutions to organizations across the globe. At Forwood Safety, we have a laser focus on saving lives. Our solutions, which provide full content and proven methodology via verification tools and analytical capabilities, have one purpose: eliminating fatalities in the workplace. […]