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Register now for the fifth annual AWS re:Invent, the largest gathering of the global cloud computing community. Join us in Las Vegas for opportunities to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS solutions. There will be many opportunities for developers and data scientists working in big data to sharpen their skills and learn what’s coming next […]

Lots to see on the Big Data Blog in June! Please take a look at the summaries below for something that catches your interest. Use Sqoop to Transfer Data from Amazon EMR to Amazon RDS Customers commonly process and transform vast amounts of data with EMR and then transfer and store summaries or aggregates of […]

Lots to see on the Big Data Blog in April! Please take a look at the summaries below for something that catches your interest. Exploring Geospatial Intelligence using SparkR on Amazon EMR The number of data sources that use location, such as smartphones and sensory devices used in IoT (Internet of things), is expanding rapidly. […]

Join and RSVP! AWS Speaker Guy Ernest, business development manager for machine learning services in AWS “No Dr., or How I Learned to Stop Debugging and Love the Robot” In this talk, Guy will dicuss what developers must know to explore the power of machine learning services in the cloud. Using data to build machine […]

Join and RSVP! AWS Speaker Guy Ernest, business development manager for machine learning services in AWS “No Dr., or How I Learned to Stop Debugging and Love the Robot” In this talk, Guy will dicuss what developers must know to explore the power of machine learning services in the cloud. Using data to build machine […]

Gone are the days when big data was confined to batch processing.  To remain competitive, companies must be able to analyze real-time data streams in areas such as video streaming, real-time recommendation engines, preventive maintenance, and fraud detection applications. Last month, Siva Raghupathy and Manjeet Chayel presented “Building a scalable architecture for processing streaming data […]

March provided another full slate of big data solutions on the AWS Big Data Blog! Take a look at the summaries below for something that catches your interest and share with anyone who’s interested in big data. Will Spark Power the Data behind Precision Medicine? Spark is already known for being a major player in […]

Join and RSVP! Guest Speaker: Cory Dolphin from Twitter Learn about how Answers, Fabric’s realtime analytics product, which processes billions of events in realtime, using Twitter’s new stream processing engine, Heron. Cory will explain some of the challenges the team faced while scaling Storm, and how Heron has helped them fly faster. Specifically, Cory will describe how Heron’s […]

Join and RSVP! AWS Speaker Christopher Crosbie, Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services For a long time, R users have sliced and diced their computational problems into smaller pieces to be able to run it in smaller chunks. But what if you want to compute on a huge dataframe with […]

Partners are a vital part of the AWS ecosystem, and AWS Partners have made important contributions to the AWS Big Data Blog. This month’s Partner Post Spotlight is on Attunity, who co-authored the post “Using Attunity CloudBeam at UMUC to Replicate Data to Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift.” Their post explains how UMUC used Attunity […]