AWS Big Data Blog

Since we launched Amazon Redshift as a cloud data warehouse service more than seven years ago, tens of thousands of customers have built analytics workloads using it. We’re always listening to your feedback and, in April 2020, we announced general availability for federated querying to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) […]

In the introductory post of this series, we discussed benchmarking benefits and best practices common across different open-source benchmarking tools. In this post, we discuss benchmarking Amazon Redshift with the SQLWorkbench and psql open-source tools. Let’s first start with a quick review of the introductory installment. When you use Amazon Redshift to scale compute and […]

Analytics environments today have seen an exponential growth in the volume of data being stored. In addition, analytics use cases have expanded, and data users want access to all their data as soon as possible. The challenge for IT organizations is how to scale your infrastructure, manage performance, and optimize for cost while meeting these […]

With a data lake built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you can use the purpose-built analytics services for a range of use cases, from analyzing petabyte-scale datasets to querying the metadata of a single object. AWS analytics services support open file formats such as Parquet, ORC, JSON, Avro, CSV, and more, so it’s […]

System developers, DevOps engineers, support engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers make sure that the underlying infrastructure powering the applications and systems within an organization is available, reliable, secure, and scalable. To achieve these goals, you need to perform a fast and deep analysis on the underlying logs, monitoring, and observability data. Amazon […]

2020 has reminded us of the need to be agile in the face of constant and sudden change. Every customer I’ve spoken to this year has had to do things differently because of the pandemic. Some are focusing on driving greater efficiency in their operations and others are experiencing a massive amount of growth. Across […]

Since we launched Amazon Redshift as a cloud data warehouse service more than seven years ago, tens of thousands of customers have built analytics workloads using it. We’re always listening to your feedback and, in December 2019, we announced our third-generation RA3 node type to provide you the ability to scale and pay for compute […]

We’re happy to announce Amazon EMR Studio (Preview), an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. EMR Studio provides fully managed Jupyter notebooks and tools like Spark UI and YARN Timeline Service to simplify debugging. […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL. Amazon Redshift offers up to 3x better price performance than any other cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data […]

Since we announced Amazon Redshift in 2012, tens of thousands of customers have trusted us to deliver the performance and scale they need to gain business insights from their data. Amazon Redshift customers span all industries and sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and we work to deliver the best price performance for any use case. Earlier […]