Category: Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3)

In this post, we explore orchestrating a Spark data pipeline on Amazon EMR using Apache Livy and Apache Airflow, we create a simple Airflow DAG to demonstrate how to run spark jobs concurrently, and we see how Livy helps to hide the complexity to submit spark jobs via REST by using optimal EMR resources.

In this post, we show you how to export data from a DynamoDB table, convert it into a more efficient format with AWS Glue, and query the data with Athena. This approach gives you a way to pull insights from your data stored in DynamoDB.

Kinesis Data Firehose can now save data to Amazon S3 in Apache Parquet or Apache ORC format. These are optimized columnar formats that are highly recommended for best performance and cost-savings when querying data in S3. This feature directly benefits you if you use Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, or any other big data tools that are available from the AWS Partner Network and through the open-source community.

I’ll describe how to read the DynamoDB backup file format in Data Pipeline, how to convert the objects in S3 to a CSV format that Amazon ML can read, and I’ll show you how to schedule regular exports and transformations using Data Pipeline.

This post describes the step-by-step process for migrating the Hue database from an existing EMR cluster.

In this post, we introduce the WIND toolkit, a huge (500 TB), open weather model dataset that’s available to the world on Amazon’s cloud services. We walk through how to access this data and some of the open-source software developed to make it easily accessible.

The best practices described in this post are based on our experience in running and operating large-scale Kafka clusters on AWS for more than two years. Our intent for this post is to help AWS customers who are currently running Kafka on AWS, and also customers who are considering migrating on-premises Kafka deployments to AWS.

In this post, we outline three Cassandra deployment options, as well as provide guidance about determining the best practices for your use case.

In this post, we will discuss what EMRFS authorization is (Amazon S3 storage-level access control) and show how to configure the role mappings with detailed examples.

This solution provides a serverless approach to automatically assigning a friendly name for your EMR cluster for easy access to popular notebooks and other web interfaces.