AWS Big Data Blog

Amazon DynamoDB helps you capture high-velocity data such as clickstream data to form customized user profiles and online order transaction data to develop customer order fulfillment applications, improve customer satisfaction, and get insights into sales revenue to create a promotional offer for the customer. It’s essential to store these data points in a centralized data […]

Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon EMR to run big data analytics applications on Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto at scale. Amazon EMR automates the provisioning and scaling of these frameworks, and delivers high performance at low cost with optimized runtimes and support for a wide range […]

Thousands of customers are building their data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can use AWS Lake Formation to build your data lakes easily—in a matter of days as opposed to months. However, there are still some difficult challenges to address with your data lakes: Supporting streaming updates and deletes in your data […]

In our previous post, we introduced PyDeequ, an open-source Python wrapper over Deequ, which enables you to write unit tests on your data to ensure data quality. The use case we ran through was on static, historical data, but most datasets are dynamic, so how can you quantify how your data is changing and detect […]

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native BI service that allows end users to create and publish dashboards in minutes, without provisioning any servers or requiring complex licensing. You can view these dashboards on the QuickSight product console or embed them into applications and websites. After you deploy a dashboard, it’s important to assess how they and […]

Streaming data is used extensively for use cases like sharing data between applications, streaming ETL (extract, transform, and load), real-time analytics, processing data from internet of things (IoT) devices, application monitoring, fraud detection, live leaderboards, and more. Typically, data streams are stored for short durations of time before being loaded into a permanent data store […]

Amazon QuickSight recently added support for Amazon Athena Federated Query, which allows you to query data in place from various data sources. With this capability, QuickSight can extend support to query additional data sources like Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon DocumentDB (with Mongo DB compatibility) via their existing Amazon Athena data source. You […]

Infrastructure and operation teams are often challenged with getting a full view into their IT environments to do monitoring and troubleshooting. New monitoring technologies are needed to provide an integrated view of all components of an IT infrastructure and application system. Datadog provides intelligent application and service monitoring by bringing together data from servers, databases, […]

Given the scalability of Amazon QuickSight to hundreds and thousands of users, a common use case is to monitor QuickSight group and user activities, analyze the utilization of dashboards, and identify usage patterns of an individual user and dashboard. With timely access to interactive usage metrics, business intelligence (BI) administrators and data team leads can […]

 Updated May 11, 2021. See the release notes below for more details. Trace Analytics is now available for Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) domains running versions 7.9 or later. Developers and IT Ops teams can use this feature to troubleshoot performance and availability issues in their distributed applications. It provides end-to-end insights that aren’t possible […]