AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Customer Solutions
Enrich VPC Flow Logs with resource tags and deliver data to Amazon S3 using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the network traffic flows going to and from network interfaces in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Visibility to the network […]
How Kyligence Cloud uses Amazon EMR Serverless to simplify OLAP
This post was co-written with Daniel Gu and Yolanda Wang, from Kyligence. Today, more than ever, organizations realize that modern business runs on data—almost all our interactions with business are based on data, and organizations must use analytics to understand, plan, and improve their operations. That is where Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) comes in. OLAP […]
California State University Chancellor’s Office reduces cost and improves efficiency using Amazon QuickSight for streamlined HR reporting in higher education
The California State University Chancellor’s Office (CSUCO) sits at the center of America’s most significant and diverse 4-year universities. The California State University (CSU) serves approximately 477,000 students and employs more than 55,000 staff and faculty members across 23 universities and 7 off-campus centers. The CSU provides students with opportunities to develop intellectually and personally, […]
Build the next generation, cross-account, event-driven data pipeline orchestration product
This is a guest post by Mehdi Bendriss, Mohamad Shaker, and Arvid Reiche from Scout24. At Scout24 SE, we love data pipelines, with over 700 pipelines running daily in production, spread across over 100 AWS accounts. As we democratize data and our data platform tooling, each team can create, maintain, and run their own data pipelines […]
How The Mill Adventure enabled data-driven decision-making in iGaming using Amazon QuickSight
This post is co-written with Darren Demicoli from The Mill Adventure. The Mill Adventure is an iGaming industry enabler offering customizable turnkey solutions to B2B partners and custom branding enablement for its B2C partners. They provide a complete gaming platform, including licenses and operations, for rapid deployment and success in iGaming, and are committed to […]
How a blockchain startup built a prototype solution to solve the need of analytics for decentralized applications with AWS Data Lab
February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. This post is co-written with Dr. Quan Hoang Nguyen, CTO at Fantom Foundation. Here at Fantom Foundation (Fantom), we have developed a high performance, highly scalable, and secure smart contract platform. It’s […]
Automate Amazon Redshift Serverless data warehouse management using AWS CloudFormation and the AWS CLI
Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it simple to run and scale analytics without having to manage the instance type, instance size, lifecycle management, pausing, resuming, and so on. It automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse compute capacity to deliver fast performance for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads, and you pay only for what […]
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 […]









