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Category: Technical How-to

Create a customizable cross-company log lake for compliance, Part I: Business Background

As builders, sometimes you want to dissect a customer experience, find problems, and figure out ways to make it better. That means going a layer down to mix and match primitives together to get more comprehensive features and more customization, flexibility, and freedom. In this post, we introduce Log Lake, a do-it-yourself data lake based on logs from CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail.

Deliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

In this blog post, we will show how to use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to deliver CloudWatch logs to OpenSearch Serverless in near real-time. We outline a mechanism to connect a Lambda subscription filter with OpenSearch Ingestion and deliver logs to OpenSearch Serverless without explicitly needing a separate subscription filter for it.

Integrate Amazon MWAA with Microsoft Entra ID using SAML authentication

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) provides a fully managed solution for orchestrating and automating complex workflows in the cloud. Amazon MWAA offers two network access modes for accessing the Apache Airflow web UI in your environments: public and private. Customers often deploy Amazon MWAA in private mode and want to use existing […]

Federating access to Amazon DataZone with AWS IAM Identity Center and Okta

Many customers rely today on Okta or other identity providers (IdPs) to federate access to their technology stack and tools. With federation, security teams can centralize user management in a single place, which helps simplify and brings agility to their day-to-day operations while keeping highest security standards. To help develop a data-driven culture, everyone inside […]

Get started with the new Amazon DataZone enhancements for Amazon Redshift

In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations are seeking ways to streamline their data management processes and unlock the full potential of their data assets, while controlling access and enforcing governance. That’s why we introduced Amazon DataZone. Amazon DataZone is a powerful data management service that empowers data engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and business users […]

Apache Iceberg metadata layer architecture diagram

Monitoring Apache Iceberg metadata layer using AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, and AWS CloudWatch

In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources. Data lakes provide a unified repository for organizations to store and use […]

How ATPCO enables governed self-service data access to accelerate innovation with Amazon DataZone

ATPCO is the backbone of modern airline retailing, enabling airlines and third-party channels to deliver the right offers to customers at the right time. ATPCO’s reach is impressive, with its fare data covering over 89% of global flight schedules. In this post, using one of ATPCO’s use cases, we show you how ATPCO uses AWS services, including Amazon DataZone, to make data discoverable by data consumers across different business units so that they can innovate faster. We encourage you to read Amazon DataZone concepts and terminologies first to become familiar with the terms used in this post.

Configure SAML federation with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless and Keycloak

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless version of Amazon OpenSearch Service, a fully managed open search and analytics platform. On Amazon OpenSearch Service you can run petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without the heavy lifting of managing the underlying OpenSearch Service clusters and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless supports workloads up to 30TB of data for time-series […]

Visual representation of the relationships of the high level entities in the customer, event and product subject areas

How ActionIQ built a truly composable customer data platform using Amazon Redshift

This post is written in collaboration with Mackenzie Johnson and Phil Catterall from ActionIQ. ActionIQ is a leading composable customer data (CDP) platform designed for enterprise brands to grow faster and deliver meaningful experiences for their customers. ActionIQ taps directly into a brand’s data warehouse to build smart audiences, resolve customer identities, and design personalized […]

Streamline your data governance by deploying Amazon DataZone with the AWS CDK

Managing data across diverse environments can be a complex and daunting task. Amazon DataZone simplifies this so you can catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and third-party sources. Many organizations manage vast amounts of data assets owned by various teams, creating a complex landscape that poses challenges for scalable data […]