AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Customer Solutions

Orca Security’s journey to a petabyte-scale data lake with Apache Iceberg and AWS Analytics

This post is co-written with Eliad Gat and Oded Lifshiz from Orca Security. With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. One key component that plays a central role in modern data architectures is the data lake, which allows organizations to […]

How Amazon Finance Automation built a data mesh to support distributed data ownership and centralize governance

Amazon Finance Automation (FinAuto) is the tech organization of Amazon Finance Operations (FinOps). Its mission is to enable FinOps to support the growth and expansion of Amazon businesses. It works as a force multiplier through automation and self-service, while providing accurate and on-time payments and collections. FinAuto has a unique position to look across FinOps […]

How AWS helped Altron Group accelerate their vision for optimized customer engagement

This is a guest post co-authored by Jacques Steyn, Senior Manager Professional Services at Altron Group. Altron is a pioneer of providing data-driven solutions for their customers by combining technical expertise with in-depth customer understanding to provide highly differentiated technology solutions. Alongside their partner AWS, they participated in AWS Data-Driven Everything (D2E) workshops and a […]

Vega Cloud brings FinOps solutions to their customers faster by embedding Amazon QuickSight

This is a guest post authored by Kris Bliesner and Mike Brown from Vega Cloud. Vega Cloud is a premier member of the FinOps Foundation, a program by Linux Foundation supporting FinOps practitioners on cloud financial management best practices. Vega Cloud provides a place where finance, engineers, and innovators come together to accelerate the business […]

Amazon Mexico FP&A dives deep into financial data with Amazon QuickSight

This is a guest post by Gonzalo Lezma from Amazon Mexico FP&A. The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team in Mexico provides strategic support to Amazon’s CFO and executive team on planning, analysis, and reporting related to Amazon Mexico. We produce and manage key finance deliverables, such as internal profit and loss (P&L) reports for […]

Position2’s Arena Calibrate helps customers drive marketing efficiency with Amazon QuickSight Embedded

This is a guest post by Vinod Nambiar from Position2. Position2 is a leading US-based growth marketing services provider focused on data-driven strategy and technology to deliver growth with improved return on investment (ROI). Position2 was established in 2006 in Silicon Valley and has a clientele spanning American Express, Lenovo, Fujitsu, and Thales. We work […]

iostudio delivers key metrics to public sector recruiters with Amazon QuickSight

This is a guest post by Jon Walker and Ari Orlinsky from iostudio written in collaboration with Sumitha AP from AWS. iostudio is an award-winning marketing agency based in Nashville, TN. We build solutions that bring brands to life, making content and platforms work together. We serve our customers, who range from small technology startups […]

Enable business users to analyze large datasets in your data lake with Amazon QuickSight

This blog post is co-written with Ori Nakar from Imperva. Imperva Cloud WAF protects hundreds of thousands of websites and blocks billions of security events every day. Events and many other security data types are stored in Imperva’s Threat Research Multi-Region data lake. Imperva harnesses data to improve their business outcomes. To enable this transformation […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service’s vector database capabilities explained

Using Amazon OpenSearch Service’s vector database capabilities, you can implement semantic search, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with LLMs, recommendation engines, and search in rich media. Learn how.

AWS Professional Services scales by improving performance and democratizing data with Amazon QuickSight

The AWS Professional Services (ProServe) Insights team builds global operational data products that serve over 8,000 users within Amazon. Our team was formed in 2019 as an informal group of four analysts who supported ad hoc analysis for a division of ProServe consultants. ProServe is responsible for assisting enterprises as they shift to the cloud […]