AWS Big Data Blog

This post walks you through configuring ADFS 3.0 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance and setting up trust between ADFS 3.0 IdP and AWS through SAML 2.0. The post then demonstrates how to install the Athena OBDC driver on Amazon Linux EC2 instance (RHEL instance) and configure it to use ADFS for authentication.

This post details how we designed and implemented our data lake’s batch ETL pipeline to use Amazon EMR, and the numerous ways we iterated on its architecture to reduce Apache Spark runtimes from hours to minutes and save over 50% on operational costs.

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Anomaly detection is a rich field of machine learning. Many mathematical and statistical techniques have been used to discover outliers in data, and as a result, many algorithms have been developed for performing anomaly detection in a computational setting. In […]

SAS® is a software provider of data science and analytics used by enterprises and government organizations. SAS Grid is a highly available, fast processing analytics platform that offers centralized management that balances workloads across different compute nodes. This application suite is capable of data management, visual analytics, governance and security, forecasting and text mining, statistical […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Prior to joining AWS, I led a development team that built mobile advertising solutions with Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for log analytics, real-time application monitoring, clickstream analysis, and (of course) search. The platform I […]

Many organizations are moving toward self-service analytics, where different personas create their own insights on the evolved volume, variety, and velocity of data to keep up with the acceleration of business. This data democratization creates the need to enforce data governance, control cost, and prevent data mismanagement. Controlling the storage quota of different personas is a significant challenge for data governance and data storage operation. This post shows you how to set up Amazon Redshift storage quotas by different personas.

August 2023: Amazon MSK now offers a managed feature called multi-VPC private connectivity to simplify connectivity of your Kafka clients to your brokers. Refer this blog to learn more. This guest post presents patterns for accessing an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka cluster across your AWS account or Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, secure, scale, and monitor your OpenSearch cluster in the AWS Cloud. Elasticsearch and OpenSearch are a distributed database solution, which can be difficult to plan for […]

With IBM announcing Netezza reaching end-of-life, you’re faced with the prospect of having to migrate your data and workloads off your analytics appliance. For some, this presents an opportunity to transition to the cloud.

Enter Amazon Redshift.

This post demonstrates how you can automate the data extraction, transformation, and use of Forecast for the use case of a retailer that requires recurring replenishment of inventory. You achieve this by using AWS Lake Formation to build a secure data lake and ingest data into it, orchestrate the data transformation using an AWS Glue workflow, and visualize the forecast results in Amazon QuickSight.