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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 is a joint post co-authored with Nir Tsruya from Klarna Bank AB. Klarna is a leading global payments and shopping service, providing smarter and more flexible […]

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML) powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud that supports identity federation in both Standard and Enterprise editions. Organizations are working toward centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on-premises and third-party. Many organizations use Keycloak as their identity provider […]

This is a guest post by Tony McCormack from Joulica. Joulica is an Ireland-based startup in the contact center industry. Our founders previously led contact center research and development for a global contact center technology provider, and we founded Joulica because we saw that the shift to the cloud and growing demand for data and […]

Organizations across the world are increasingly relying on streaming data, and there is a growing need for real-time data analytics, considering the growing velocity and volume of data being collected. This data can come from a diverse range of sources, including Internet of Things (IoT) devices, user applications, and logging and telemetry information from applications, […]

Amazon EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data solution, providing a collection of open-source frameworks such as Spark, Hive, Hudi, and Presto, fully managed and with per-second billing. Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is a deployment option allowing you to deploy Amazon EMR on the same Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters that is […]

August 2023: This post was updated to include Apache Iceberg support in Amazon Redshift. Disclaimer: Due to rapid advancements in AWS service support for open table formats, recent developments might not yet be reflected in this post. For the latest information on AWS service support for open table formats, refer to the official AWS service […]

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses rely heavily on their data to make informed decisions. This data is often stored and analyzed using various tools, such as Amazon OpenSearch Service, a powerful search and analytics service offered by AWS. OpenSearch Service provides real-time insights into your data to support use cases like interactive log analytics, […]

This is a guest blog post co-written with Sumesh M R from Cargotec and Tero Karttunen from Knowit Finland. Cargotec (Nasdaq Helsinki: CGCBV) is a Finnish company that specializes in cargo handling solutions and services. They are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, and operates globally in over 100 countries. With its leading cargo handling solutions and […]

We are excited to announce the General Availability of AWS Glue Data Quality. Our journey started by working backward from our customers who create, manage, and operate data lakes and data warehouses for analytics and machine learning. To make confident business decisions, the underlying data needs to be accurate and recent. Otherwise, data consumers lose […]

In the first post of the series, we described some core concepts of Apache Kafka cluster sizing, the best practices for optimizing the performance, and the cost of your Kafka workload. This post explains how the underlying infrastructure affects Kafka performance when you use Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) tiered storage. We […]