AWS Big Data Blog

How FanDuel adopted a modern Amazon Redshift architecture to serve critical business workloads

This post is co-written with Sreenivasa Mungala and Matt Grimm from FanDuel. In this post, we share how FanDuel moved from a DC2 nodes architecture to a modern Amazon Redshift architecture, which includes Redshift provisioned clusters using RA3 instances, Amazon Redshift data sharing, and Amazon Redshift Serverless. About FanDuel Part of Flutter Entertainment, FanDuel Group […]

AWS Clean Rooms proof of concept scoping part 1: media measurement

In this post, we outline planning a POC to measure media effectiveness in a paid advertising campaign. The collaborators are a media owner (“CTV.Co,” a connected TV provider) and brand advertiser (“Coffee.Co,” a quick service restaurant company), that are analyzing their collective data to understand the impact on sales as a result of an advertising campaign.

How HR&A uses Amazon Redshift spatial analytics on Amazon Redshift Serverless to measure digital equity in states across the US

In our increasingly digital world, affordable access to high-speed broadband is a necessity to fully participate in our society, yet there are still millions of American households without internet access. HR&A Advisors—a multi-disciplinary consultancy with extensive work in the broadband and digital equity space is helping its state, county, and municipal clients deliver affordable internet […]

Integrate Identity Provider (IdP) with Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 using AWS IAM Identity Center for seamless Single Sign-On

March 2024: This post was reviewed and updated to be more generic for IAM identity center supported Identity Providers (IdPs). AWS IAM Identity Center allows you to manage single sign-on (SSO) access to all your AWS accounts and applications from a single location. We are pleased to announce that Amazon Redshift now integrates with AWS IAM Identity Center, […]

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 […]