Category: Storage

You can build data lakes with millions of objects on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use AWS native analytics and machine learning (ML) services to process, analyze, and extract business insights. You can use a combination of our purpose-built databases and analytics services like Amazon EMR, Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), and Amazon […]

Apache HBase is an open-source, NoSQL database that you can use to achieve low latency random access to billions of rows. Starting with Amazon EMR 5.2.0, you can enable HBase on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With HBase on Amazon S3, the HBase data files (HFiles) are written to Amazon S3, enabling data lake […]

Organizations that successfully generate business value from their data will outperform their peers. Many AWS customers require a data storage and analytics solution that combines the prospect information stored in Salesforce, a popular and widely used customer relationship management (CRM) platform, with other structured and unstructured data in their data lake to innovate and build […]

Infrastructure and operation teams are often challenged with getting a full view into their IT environments to do monitoring and troubleshooting. New monitoring technologies are needed to provide an integrated view of all components of an IT infrastructure and application system. Datadog provides intelligent application and service monitoring by bringing together data from servers, databases, […]

The ability to query data and perform ad hoc analysis across multiple platforms and data stores with a single tool brings immense value to the big data analytical arena. As organizations build out data lakes with increasing volumes of data, there is a growing need to combine that data with large amounts of data in […]

I was working with a customer who was just getting started using AWS, and they wanted to understand how to query their AWS service logs that were being delivered to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). I introduced them to Amazon Athena, a serverless, interactive query service that allows you to easily analyze data in […]

In part 1 of this series, we demonstrated building an end-to-end data lifecycle management system integrated with a data lake house implemented on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with Amazon Redshift and Amazon Redshift Spectrum. In this post, we address the ongoing operation of the solution we built. Data ageing process after a month […]

The continuous growth of data volumes combined with requirements to implement long-term retention (typically due to specific industry regulations) puts pressure on the storage costs of data warehouse solutions, even for cloud native data warehouse services such as Amazon Redshift. The introduction of the new Amazon Redshift RA3 node types helped in decoupling compute from […]

This is a guest post co-authored by Pradip Thoke of Dream11. In their own words, “Dream11, the flagship brand of Dream Sports, is India’s biggest fantasy sports platform, with more than 100 million users. We have infused the latest technologies of analytics, machine learning, social networks, and media technologies to enhance our users’ experience. Dream11 […]

This post is co-written with Damian Grech from FanDuel FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the US, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit […]