AWS Big Data Blog

This is a guest post by Christa Pierson and Jon Fearer at OrthoFi. OrthoFi is an orthodontic industry leader in revenue cycle management (RCM), and has partnered with more than 550 orthodontic practices across the country, delivering an end-to-end platform that enables orthodontists to bring on more patients and run their businesses more effectively. To […]

As the industry grows with more data volume, big data analytics is becoming a common requirement in data analytics and machine learning (ML) use cases. Analysts are building complex data transformation pipelines that include multiple steps for data preparation and cleansing. However, analysts may want a simpler orchestration mechanism with a graphical user interface that […]

Streaming data into or out of a data system must be fast. One of the most expensive pieces of any streaming system is the I/O of the system: reading from the streaming layer using Apache Kafka or Amazon Kinesis, reading a file, writing to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, or communicating […]

Presto is an open-source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Presto was designed and written from the ground up for interactive analytics, and approaches the speed of commercial data warehouses while scaling to the size of organizations like Facebook. Running Presto […]

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we announced the preview of native support for JSON and semi-structured data in Amazon Redshift. This includes a new data type, SUPER, which allows you to store JSON and other semi-structured data in Amazon Redshift tables, and support for the PartiQL query language, which allows you to seamlessly query and process […]

Organizations can gain deeper and richer insights when they bring together all their relevant data of all structures and types and from all sources to analyze. In order to analyze these vast amounts of data, they are taking all their data from various silos and aggregating all of that data in one location, what many […]

This is a guest post by Zachary Whitford, Associate, Richa Prajapati, Vice President and Aldo Piddiu, Vice President in the Global Investment Research engineering team at Goldman Sachs. The Global Investment Research (GIR) division at Goldman Sachs delivers client-focused research in the equity, fixed income, currency, and commodities markets. GIR analysts help the firm’s investor […]

AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service that helps you build, secure, and manage data lakes, and provide access control for data in the data lake. Customers across lines of business (LOBs) need a way to manage granular access permissions for different users at the table and column level. Lake Formation helps you manage […]

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Redshift console partner integration is now generally available. This new console integration provides rapid provisioning and seamless integration with AWS partners. You can onboard with data integration partner solutions in less than a minute directly on the Amazon Redshift console, and ingest data from multiple data sources using partners’ […]

This is a guest blog post by Marc Müller, David Amornvuttkul, and Amira Lotfy at VNR AG. German publishing house VNR AG has a simple mission: to make expert knowledge accessible to everyone. Founded in 1976, the company has published more than 300 volumes in law, investment, health, and workplace environments. It provides customers with […]