AWS Big Data Blog

September 2022: This post was reviewed and updated with latest screenshots and instructions. Today, data is flowing from everywhere, whether it is unstructured data from resources like IoT sensors, application logs, and clickstreams, or structured data from transaction applications, relational databases, and spreadsheets. Data has become a crucial part of every business. This has resulted […]

July 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. In February 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new feature in Amazon Data Firehose called Custom Prefixes for Amazon S3 Objects. It lets customers specify a custom expression for the Amazon S3 prefix where data records are delivered. Previously, Firehose allowed only specifying a […]

In this post, we discuss how you can use Apache Flink and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Java Applications to address these challenges. We explore how to build a reliable, scalable, and highly available streaming architecture based on managed services that substantially reduce the operational overhead compared to a self-managed environment.

We are living in a golden age of innovation, where personalized medicine is making it possible to cure diseases that we never thought curable. Digital medicine is helping people with diseases get healthier, and we are constantly discovering how to use the body’s immune system to target and eradicate cancer cells. According to a report […]

December 2022: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Managing database users and access can be a daunting and error-prone task. In the past, database administrators had to determine which groups a user belongs to and which objects a user/group is authorized to use. These lists were maintained within the database and could easily […]

As a fully managed service, Amazon Redshift is designed to be easy to set up and use. In this blog post, we demonstrate how to grant access to users in an operations group to perform only specific actions in the Amazon Redshift Management Console. If you implement a custom IAM policy, you can set it […]

Leading technology companies, such as Netflix and Airbnb, are building on AWS to solve problems on the edge of the data ecosystem. While these companies show us what data and analytics make possible, the complexity and scale of their problems aren’t typical. Most of our challenges aren’t figuring out how to process billions of records […]

At re:Invent 2018, we announced the preview of ML Insights, a set of out-of-the-box machine learning and natural language features that provide Amazon QuickSight users with business insights beyond visualization. Today, we are announcing the general availability of ML Insights. As the volume of data that customers generate continues to grow every day, it’s becoming […]

In this blog post, we are going to focus on cost-optimizing and efficiently running Spark applications on Amazon EMR by using Spot Instances. We recommend several best practices to increase the fault tolerance of your Spark applications and use Spot Instances. These work without compromising availability or having a large impact on performance or the length of your jobs.

This post shows a step-by-step walkthrough of how to set up a cross-account Amazon Redshift COPY and Spectrum query using a sample dataset in Amazon S3. The sample dataset is encrypted at rest using AWS KMS-managed keys (SSE-KMS). About AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) With AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), you can have […]