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Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS I now have a collection of napkins from customer dinners with various AWS technology solutions sketched on them.  This particular napkin is an Amazon DynamoDB schema design for a customer interested in using the new JSON document support to import a bunch of JSON files into […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS During the keynote on Wednesday we announced Amazon RDS for Aurora, a new high-performance and cost-effective relational database.  I heard from multiple AWS re:Invent attendees that they’re really excited about how AWS is innovating in the data storage space, and from a big data perspective it […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS Today hundreds of AWS customers participated in bootcamps at re:Invent, including three sessions in the big data space: Store, Manage, and Analyze Big Data in the Cloud, Real Time Data Processing and Analysis with Amazon Redshift and Amazon Kinesis and Building High-Performance Applications on DynamoDB.  Chris […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS The breakout sesisons at AWS re:Invent start on Wednesday, but plenty of people have already arrived and the product announcements have started. In the big data world, the Amazon DynamoDB team announced a sneak preview of an exciting new feature: DynamoDB Streams (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/dynamodb-streams-preview/).  This will allow […]

AWS re:Invent is just a few days away! Big data is being used to transform businesses, increase efficiency, and drive innovation. The AWS Cloud has a comprehensive portfolio of big data and HPC services to accelerate and automate how you put data to work in your organization. In the Big Data & HPC track at […]

The advertising space is going through a rapid transformation and many of the companies driving this change are using AWS services like Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon CloudFront.  If you work for an ad tech company in the San Francisco area, you should consider attending a free, one-day event for […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services Introduction In the first two parts of this series we discussed two popular products–out of many possible solutions–for moving big data into the cloud: Tsunami UDP and Data Expedition’s ExpeDat S3 Gateway. Today we’ll look at another option that takes a different approach: Signiant […]