Category: Technical How-to

Amazon OpenSearch Service recently introduced a new Transport Layer Security (TLS) policy Policy-Min-TLS-1-2-PFS-2023-10, which supports the latest TLS 1.3 protocol and TLS 1.2 with Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) cipher suites. This new policy improves security and enhances OpenSearch performance. In this post, we discuss the benefits of this new policy and how to enable it using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

In this post, we describe Nexthink’s journey as they implemented a new real-time alerting system using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. We explore the architecture, the rationale behind key technology choices, and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) services that enabled a scalable and efficient solution.

At AWS re:Invent 2024, we introduced a no code zero-ETL integration between Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, simplifying how organizations handle data analytics and AI workflows. In this post, we share how to set up this zero-ETL integration from DynamoDB to your SageMaker Lakehouse environment.

In this post, we guide you through the process of creating a Data Catalog view using EMR Serverless, adding the SQL dialect to the view for Athena, sharing it with another account using LF-Tags, and then querying the view in the recipient account using a separate EMR Serverless workspace and AWS Glue 5.0 Spark job and Athena. This demonstration showcases the versatility and cross-account capabilities of Data Catalog views and access through various AWS analytics services.

This post demonstrates how to centralize Apache Spark observability using SHS on EMR on EKS. We showcase how to enhance SHS with performance monitoring tools, with a pattern applicable to many monitoring solutions such as SparkMeasure and DataFlint.

In this post, we will show you five Amazon Redshift architecture patterns that you can consider to optimize your Amazon Redshift data warehouse performance at scale using features such as Amazon Redshift Serverless, Amazon Redshift data sharing, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, zero-ETL integrations, and Amazon Redshift streaming ingestion.

In this post, we dive deep into the new Amazon EMR WAL feature to help you understand how it works, how it enhances durability, and why it’s needed. We explore several scenarios that are well-suited for this feature.

In this post, we explore how PackScan uses Amazon cloud-based services to drive real-time visibility, improve logistics efficiency, and support the seamless movement of packages across Amazon’s Middle Mile network.

In this post, we present Riskified’s journey toward enabling self-service streaming SQL pipelines. We walk through the motivations behind the shift from Confluent ksqlDB to Apache Flink, the architecture Riskified built using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, the technical challenges they faced, and the solutions that helped them make streaming accessible, scalable, and production-ready.

In this post, we show you how to create Iceberg tables in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and stream data to these tables using Firehose. With this integration, data engineers, analysts, and data scientists can seamlessly collaborate and build end-to-end analytics and ML workflows using SageMaker Unified Studio, removing traditional silos and accelerating the journey from data ingestion to production ML models.