AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Serverless
Best practices to optimize data access performance from Amazon EMR and AWS Glue to Amazon S3
June 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy and updated to cover Apache Iceberg. June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Customers are increasingly building data lakes to store data at massive scale in the cloud. It’s common to use distributed computing engines, cloud-native databases, and data warehouses when you want to […]
Introducing Protocol buffers (protobuf) schema support in AWS Glue Schema Registry
AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports Protocol buffers (protobuf) schemas in addition to JSON and Avro schemas. This allows application teams to use protobuf schemas to govern the evolution of streaming data and centrally control data quality from data streams to data lake. AWS Glue Schema Registry provides an open-source library that includes Apache-licensed serializers […]
Design patterns: Set up AWS Glue Crawlers using S3 event notifications
The AWS Well-Architected Data Analytics Lens provides a set of guiding principles for analytics applications on AWS. One of the best practices it talks about is build a central Data Catalog to store, share, and track metadata changes. AWS Glue provides a Data Catalog to fulfill this requirement. AWS Glue also provides crawlers that automatically […]
Build data lineage for data lakes using AWS Glue, Amazon Neptune, and Spline
Data lineage is one of the most critical components of a data governance strategy for data lakes. Data lineage helps ensure that accurate, complete and trustworthy data is being used to drive business decisions. While a data catalog provides metadata management features and search capabilities, data lineage shows the full context of your data by […]
Build a serverless pipeline to analyze streaming data using AWS Glue, Apache Hudi, and Amazon S3
Organizations typically accumulate massive volumes of data and continue to generate ever-exceeding data volumes, ranging from terabytes to petabytes and at times to exabytes of data. Such data is usually generated in disparate systems and requires an aggregation into a single location for analysis and insight generation. A data lake architecture allows you to aggregate […]
How the Georgia Data Analytics Center built a cloud analytics solution from scratch with the AWS Data Lab
This is a guest post by Kanti Chalasani, Division Director at Georgia Data Analytics Center (GDAC). GDAC is housed within the Georgia Office of Planning and Budget to facilitate governed data sharing between various state agencies and departments. The Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) established the Georgia Data Analytics Center (GDAC) with the intent […]
Audit AWS service events with Amazon EventBridge and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to build event-driven applications at scale using events generated from your applications, integrated software as a service (SaaS) applications, and AWS […]
Extract ServiceNow data using AWS Glue Studio in an Amazon S3 data lake and analyze using Amazon Athena
Many different cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) offerings are available in AWS. ServiceNow is one of the common cloud-based workflow automation platforms widely used by AWS customers. In the past few years, we saw a lot of customers who wanted to extract and integrate data from IT service management (ITSM) tools like ServiceNow for […]
How GE Aviation automated engine wash analytics with AWS Glue using a serverless architecture
This post is authored by Giridhar G Jorapur, GE Aviation Digital Technology. Maintenance and overhauling of aircraft engines are essential for GE Aviation to increase time on wing gains and reduce shop visit costs. Engine wash analytics provide visibility into the significant time on wing gains that can be achieved through effective water wash, foam […]
Validate streaming data over Amazon MSK using schemas in cross-account AWS Glue Schema Registry
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. Today’s businesses face an unprecedented growth in the volume of data. A growing portion of the data is generated in real time by IoT devices, websites, business […]