AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Serverless

Serverless logging with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless 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. In this post, you will learn how you can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to build a log ingestion pipeline to send VPC flow logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. First, you create […]

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available!

We ended 2022 on a high note with the preview release of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless at re:Invent. Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, the serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easier to run search and analytics workloads without even having to think about infrastructure management. […]

Build a serverless analytics application with Amazon Redshift and Amazon API Gateway

Serverless applications are a modernized way to perform analytics among business departments and engineering teams. Business teams can gain meaningful insights by simplifying their reporting through web applications and distributing it to a broader audience. Use cases can include the following: Dashboarding – A webpage consisting of tables and charts where each component can offer […]

Add your own libraries and application dependencies to Spark and Hive on Amazon EMR Serverless with custom images

Amazon EMR Serverless allows you to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without managing clusters and servers. Many customers who run Spark and Hive applications want to add their own libraries and dependencies to the application runtime. For example, you may want to add popular open-source extensions to Spark, […]

Introducing the Cloud Shuffle Storage Plugin for Apache Spark

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. In AWS Glue, you can use Apache Spark, an open-source, distributed processing system for your data integration tasks and big data workloads. Apache Spark utilizes in-memory caching and optimized […]

Log analytics the easy way with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

We recently announced the preview release of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service, which makes it easy for you to run large-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. It automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query […]

Get started with data integration from Amazon S3 to Amazon Redshift using AWS Glue interactive sessions

Organizations are placing a high priority on data integration, especially to support analytics, machine learning (ML), business intelligence (BI), and application development initiatives. Data is growing exponentially and is generated by increasingly diverse data sources. Data integration becomes challenging when processing data at scale and the inherent heavy lifting associated with infrastructure required to manage […]

Share and publish your Snowflake data to AWS Data Exchange using Amazon Redshift data sharing

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. Today, tens of thousands of AWS customers—from Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between—use Amazon Redshift to run mission-critical business intelligence (BI) dashboards, […]

Use an event-driven architecture to build a data mesh on AWS

In this post, we take the data mesh design discussed in Design a data mesh architecture using AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue, and demonstrate how to initialize data domain accounts to enable managed sharing; we also go through how we can use an event-driven approach to automate processes between the central governance account and […]

How Hudl built a cost-optimized AWS Glue pipeline with Apache Hudi datasets

This is a guest blog post co-written with Addison Higley and Ramzi Yassine from Hudl. Hudl Agile Sports Technologies, Inc. is a Lincoln, Nebraska based company that provides tools for coaches and athletes to review game footage and improve individual and team play. Its initial product line served college and professional American football teams. Today, […]