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Implement a full stack serverless search application using AWS Amplify, Amazon Cognito, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

Designing a full stack search application requires addressing numerous challenges to provide a smooth and effective user experience. This encompasses tasks such as integrating diverse data from various sources with distinct formats and structures, optimizing the user experience for performance and security, providing multilingual support, and optimizing for cost, operations, and reliability. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless […]

AWS named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Analytic Stream Processing Software 2024 Vendor Assessment

We’re thrilled to announce that AWS has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Analytic Stream Processing Software 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51053123, March 2024). We believe this recognition validates the power and performance of Apache Flink for real-time data processing, and how AWS is leading the way to help customers build and […]

Migrate a petabyte-scale data warehouse from Actian Vectorwise to Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data. It also helps you securely access your data in operational databases, data lakes, or third-party datasets with minimal movement or copying of data. Tens of thousands […]

Introducing support for Apache Kafka on Raft mode (KRaft) with Amazon MSK clusters

Organizations are adopting Apache Kafka and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) to capture and analyze data in real time. Amazon MSK helps you build and run production applications on Apache Kafka without needing Kafka infrastructure management expertise or having to deal with the complex overhead associated with setting up and running Apache […]

Simplify data lake access control for your enterprise users with trusted identity propagation in AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon S3 Access Grants

Many organizations use external identity providers (IdPs) such as Okta or Microsoft Azure Active Directory to manage their enterprise user identities. These users interact with and run analytical queries across AWS analytics services. To enable them to use the AWS services, their identities from the external IdP are mapped to AWS Identity and Access Management […]

Introducing Amazon EMR on EKS with Apache Flink: A scalable, reliable, and efficient data processing platform

AWS recently announced that Apache Flink is generally available for Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Apache Flink is a scalable, reliable, and efficient data processing framework that handles real-time streaming and batch workloads (but is most commonly used for real-time streaming). Amazon EMR on EKS is a deployment option for Amazon EMR […]

Architectural Patterns for Real Time Analytics using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Part 2 – AI Applications

Architectural Patterns for real-time analytics using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Part 2: AI Applications

Welcome back to our exciting exploration of architectural patterns for real-time analytics with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams! In this fast-paced world, Kinesis Data Streams stands out as a versatile and robust solution to tackle a wide range of use cases with real-time data, from dashboarding to powering artificial intelligence (AI) applications. In this series, we […]

In-place version upgrades for applications on Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supported

Managed Service for Apache Flink is a fully managed, serverless experience in running Apache Flink applications, and now supports Apache Flink 1.18.1, the latest released version of Apache Flink at the time of writing. In this post, we explore in-place version upgrades, a new feature offered by Managed Service for Apache Flink. We provide guidance on getting started and offer detailed insights into the feature. Later, we deep dive into how the feature works and some sample use cases.

Introducing blueprint discovery and other UI enhancements for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is a fully managed serverless pipeline that allows you to ingest, filter, transform, enrich, and route data to an Amazon OpenSearch Service domain or Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collection. OpenSearch Ingestion is capable of ingesting data from a wide variety of sources and has a rich ecosystem of built-in processors to take care […]