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Create a modern data platform using the Data Build Tool (dbt) in the AWS Cloud

Building a data platform involves various approaches, each with its unique blend of complexities and solutions. A modern data platform entails maintaining data across multiple layers, targeting diverse platform capabilities like high performance, ease of development, cost-effectiveness, and DataOps features such as CI/CD, lineage, and unit testing. In this post, we delve into a case […]

How Gilead used Amazon Redshift to quickly and cost-effectively load third-party medical claims data

This post was co-written with Rajiv Arora, Director of Data Science Platform at Gilead Life Sciences. Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, inflammation, and cancer. A leader in virology, Gilead historically relied on these drugs for growth but now […]

Implement fine-grained access control in Amazon SageMaker Studio and Amazon EMR using Apache Ranger and Microsoft Active Directory

In this post, we show how you can authenticate into SageMaker Studio using an existing Active Directory (AD), with authorized access to both Amazon S3 and Hive cataloged data using AD entitlements via Apache Ranger integration and AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On). With this solution, you can manage access to multiple SageMaker environments and SageMaker Studio notebooks using a single set of credentials. Subsequently, Apache Spark jobs created from SageMaker Studio notebooks will access only the data and resources permitted by Apache Ranger policies attached to the AD credentials, inclusive of table and column-level access.

Configure dynamic tenancy for Amazon OpenSearch Dashboards

Amazon OpenSearch Service securely unlocks real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data for use cases like application monitoring, log analytics, observability, and website search. In this post, we talk about new configurable dashboards tenant properties. OpenSearch Dashboards tenants in Amazon OpenSearch Service are spaces for saving index patterns, visualizations, dashboards, and other […]

Use IAM runtime roles with Amazon EMR Studio Workspaces and AWS Lake Formation for cross-account fine-grained access control

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it straightforward for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug data engineering and data science applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. EMR Studio provides fully managed Jupyter notebooks and tools such as Spark UI and YARN Timeline Server via […]

GoDaddy benchmarking results in up to 24% better price-performance for their Spark workloads with AWS Graviton2 on Amazon EMR Serverless

This is a guest post co-written with Mukul Sharma, Software Development Engineer, and Ozcan IIikhan, Director of Engineering 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, […]

An automated approach to perform an in-place engine upgrade in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Software upgrades bring new features and better performance, and keep you current with the software provider. However, upgrades for software services can be difficult to complete successfully, especially when you can’t tolerate downtime and when the new version’s APIs introduce breaking changes and deprecation that you must remediate. This post shows you how to upgrade […]

Create, train, and deploy Amazon Redshift ML model integrating features from Amazon SageMaker Feature Store

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale, cloud data warehouse that tens of thousands of customers rely on to power their analytics workloads. Data analysts and database developers want to use this data to train machine learning (ML) models, which can then be used to generate insights on new data for use cases such as forecasting […]

Enable cost-efficient operational analytics with Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

As the scale and complexity of microservices and distributed applications continues to expand, customers are seeking guidance for building cost-efficient infrastructure supporting operational analytics use cases. Operational analytics is a popular use case with Amazon OpenSearch Service. A few of the defining characteristics of these use cases are ingesting a high volume of time series […]

Unstructured Data Management - AWS Native Architecture

Unstructured data management and governance using AWS AI/ML and analytics services

In this post, we discuss how AWS can help you successfully address the challenges of extracting insights from unstructured data. We discuss various design patterns and architectures for extracting and cataloging valuable insights from unstructured data using AWS. Additionally, we show how to use AWS AI/ML services for analyzing unstructured data.