Category: Technical How-to

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.

With SageMaker Lakehouse, you can access tables stored in Amazon Redshift managed storage (RMS) through Iceberg APIs, using the Iceberg REST catalog backed by AWS Glue Data Catalog. This post describes how to integrate data on RMS tables through Apache Spark using SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon EMR 7.5.0 and higher, and AWS Glue 5.0.

In this post, we share how AppsFlyer successfully migrated their massive data infrastructure from self-managed Hadoop clusters to Amazon EMR Serverless, detailing their best practices, challenges to overcome, and lessons learned that can help guide other organizations in similar transformations.

In this post, we show you how to share an Amazon Redshift table and Amazon S3 based Iceberg table from the account that owns the data to another account that consumes the data. In the recipient account, we run a join query on the shared data lake and data warehouse tables using Spark in AWS Glue 5.0. We walk you through the complete cross-account setup and provide the Spark configuration in a Python notebook.

This series of posts demonstrates how you can onboard and access existing AWS data sources using SageMaker Unified Studio. This post focuses on onboarding existing AWS Glue Data Catalog tables and database tables available in Amazon Redshift.

In this post we discuss integrating additional vital data sources such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon EMR clusters. We demonstrate how to configure the necessary permissions, establish connections, and effectively use these resources within SageMaker Unified Studio. Whether you’re working with object storage, relational databases, NoSQL databases, or big data processing, this post can help you seamlessly incorporate your existing data infrastructure into your SageMaker Unified Studio workflows.

Natural Intelligence (NI) is a world leader in multi-category marketplaces. In this blog post, NI shares their journey, the innovative solutions developed, and the key takeaways that can guide other organizations considering a similar path. This article details NI’s practical approach to this complex migration, focusing less on Apache Iceberg’s technical specifications, but rather on the real-world challenges and solutions encountered during the transition to Apache Iceberg, a challenge that many organizations are grappling with.