AWS Big Data Blog

Prepare and load Amazon S3 data into Teradata using AWS Glue through its native connector for Teradata Vantage

In this post, we explore how to use the AWS Glue native connector for Teradata Vantage to streamline data integrations and unlock the full potential of your data. Businesses often rely on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for storing large amounts of data from various data sources in a cost-effective and secure manner. For […]

How Eightfold AI implemented metadata security in a multi-tenant data analytics environment with Amazon Redshift

This is a guest post co-written with Arun Sudhir from Eightfold AI. Eightfold is transforming the world of work by providing solutions that empower organizations to recruit and retain a diverse global workforce. Eightfold is a leader in AI products for enterprises to build on their talent’s existing skills. From Talent Acquisition to Talent Management […]

Build and manage your modern data stack using dbt and AWS Glue through dbt-glue, the new “trusted” dbt adapter

dbt is an open source, SQL-first templating engine that allows you to write repeatable and extensible data transforms in Python and SQL. dbt focuses on the transform layer of extract, load, transform (ELT) or extract, transform, load (ETL) processes across data warehouses and databases through specific engine adapters to achieve extract and load functionality. It […]

Amazon Redshift announcements at AWS re:Invent 2023 to enable analytics on all your data

In 2013, Amazon Web Services revolutionized the data warehousing industry by launching Amazon Redshift, the first fully-managed, petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse. Amazon Redshift made it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze large volumes of data using existing business intelligence tools. This cloud service was a significant leap from the traditional data warehousing solutions, which […]

Unlocking the value of data as your differentiator

Today on the AWS re:Invent keynote stage, Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Data and AI, AWS, spoke about the beneficial relationship among data, generative AI, and humans—all working together to unleash new possibilities in efficiency and creativity. There has never been a more exciting time in modern technology. Innovation is accelerating everywhere, and the future is […]

Announcing zero-ETL integrations with AWS Databases and Amazon Redshift

As customers become more data driven and use data as a source of competitive advantage, they want to easily run analytics on their data to better understand their core business drivers to grow sales, reduce costs, and optimize their businesses. To run analytics on their operational data, customers often build solutions that are a combination […]

Improve performance of workloads containing repetitive scan filters with multidimensional data layout sort keys in Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift, a widely used cloud data warehouse, has evolved significantly to meet the performance requirements of the most demanding workloads. This post covers one such new feature—the multidimensional data layout sort key. Amazon Redshift now improves your query performance by supporting multidimensional data layout sort keys, which is a new type of sort key […]

Amazon MSK now provides up to 29% more throughput and up to 24% lower costs with AWS Graviton3 support

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Today, we’re excited to bring the benefits of Graviton3 to Kafka workloads, with Amazon MSK now offering M7g instances for new MSK provisioned clusters. AWS Graviton […]

Use Amazon EMR with S3 Access Grants to scale Spark access to Amazon S3

Amazon EMR is pleased to announce integration with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Grants that simplifies Amazon S3 permission management and allows you to enforce granular access at scale. With this integration, you can scale job-based Amazon S3 access for Apache Spark jobs across all Amazon EMR deployment options and enforce granular Amazon […]

Large Language Models for sentiment analysis with Amazon Redshift ML (Preview)

Amazon Redshift ML empowers data analysts and database developers to integrate the capabilities of machine learning and artificial intelligence into their data warehouse. Amazon Redshift ML helps to simplify the creation, training, and application of machine learning models through familiar SQL commands. You can further enhance Amazon Redshift’s inferencing capabilities by Bringing Your Own Models […]