AWS Big Data Blog

I was working with a customer who was just getting started using AWS, and they wanted to understand how to query their AWS service logs that were being delivered to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). I introduced them to Amazon Athena, a serverless, interactive query service that allows you to easily analyze data in […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. This is a customer post written by the engineers from German startup Baqend and the AWS EMEA Prototyping Labs team. Baqend is one of the fastest-growing software […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in a data lake using standard SQL. One of the key elements of Athena is that you only pay for the queries you run. This is an attractive feature because there is no […]

This is a guest blog post by Gary Bouton and Louis Ashner from EMX. In their own words, “ENGINE Media Exchange (EMX) is a leading marketing technology company, leveraging a patented, end-to-end tech stack purpose-built to meet the demands of today’s digital marketplace. The company creates both open- and closed-loop solutions designed to unify advertisers, […]

Amazon Athena has released a new feature that allows you to easily invoke machine learning (ML) models for inference directly from your SQL queries. Inference is the stage in which a trained model is used to infer and predict the testing samples and comprises a similar forward pass as training to predict the values. Unlike […]

May 2024: This post was reviewed and updated with a new dataset. In a previous post, we introduced the Amazon EMR notebook APIs, which allow you to programmatically run a notebook on Amazon EMR Studio (preview) without accessing the AWS web console. With the APIs, you can schedule running EMR notebooks with cron scripts, chain multiple notebooks, […]

This is a guest post from an Amazon QuickSight customer, Edmunds GovTech Over the past 30 years, Edmunds GovTech has grown to provide enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to thousands of East Coast municipalities. We also serve cities and towns in 25 other states. In this blog, I’ll talk about how we used Amazon QuickSight […]

Part 1 of this series explains the importance of building and implementing a customer experience (CX) management and data monetization strategy for telecom service providers (TSPs), and the major challenges driving these initiatives. It also includes an AWS CloudFormation template to set up a demonstration of the solution using AWS services. It covers transforming and enriching […]

In part 1 of this series, we demonstrated building an end-to-end data lifecycle management system integrated with a data lake house implemented on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with Amazon Redshift and Amazon Redshift Spectrum. In this post, we address the ongoing operation of the solution we built. Data ageing process after a month […]

This post is co-written with Shawn Koupal, an Enterprise Analytics IT Architect at Best Western International, Inc. A common ask from Amazon QuickSight administrators is to understand the lineage of a given dashboard (what analysis is it built from, what datasets are used in the analysis, and what data sources do those datasets use). QuickSight […]