AWS Big Data Blog

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Month in Review: June 2016

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 […]

Month in Review: April 2016

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. […]

AWS at Strata+Hadoop 2016: Building a Scalable Architecture on AWS to Process Streaming Data

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 […]

Month in Review: March 2016

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 […]

AWS Big Data Meetup March 31 in San Francisco: Intro to SparkR and breakout discussions

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 […]

AWS Partner Post Spotlight: Attunity

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 […]

Big Data Website Gets a Big Makeover at AWS

Jorge A. Lopez is responsible for Big Data Solutions Marketing at AWS The big data ecosystem is evolving at a tremendous pace, giving rise to a plethora of tools, use cases, and applications. The new AWS Big Data website is now the ideal starting point to learn about new and existing capabilities, and the services […]