AWS Big Data Blog

February 2024: This post was reviewed and updated to reflect changes in Amazon Athena engine version 3, including cost-based optimization and query result reuse. Amazon Athena is an interactive analytics service built on open source frameworks that make it straightforward to analyze data stored using open table and file formats in Amazon Simple Storage Service […]

This blog post has been translated into Japanese. Data scientists are often concerned about managing the infrastructure behind big data platforms while running SQL on R. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that works directly with data stored in S3 and makes it easy to analyze data using standard SQL without the need to […]

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS The serverless Amazon Redshift Monitoring utility lets you gather important performance metrics from your Redshift cluster’s system tables and persists the results in Amazon CloudWatch. This serverless solution leverages AWS Lambda to schedule custom SQL queries and process the results. With this utility, you can use […]

Another month of big data solutions on the Big Data Blog! Take a look at our summaries below and learn, comment, and share. Thank you for reading! NEW POSTS Implement Serverless Log Analytics Using Amazon Kinesis Analytics In this post, learn how how to implement a solution that analyzes streaming Apache access log data from an […]

We’re back in San Jose for the Strata conference, March 13-16, 2017, to talk all things big data at AWS and show you some of our latest innovations. Come meet the AWS Big Data team at booth #928, where big data experts will be happy to answer your questions, hear about your requirements, and help […]

February 2, 2022: Blog updated by Chaitanya Shah. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Organizations of different size who migrate their applications in cloud or applications born in cloud makes use of various cloud services to innovate and […]

AWS offers a range of training resources to help you advance your knowledge with practical skills so you can get more out of the cloud. We’ve updated Big Data on AWS, a three-day, instructor-led training course to keep pace with the latest AWS big data innovations. This course allows you to hear big data best […]

As organizations move their workloads to the cloud, audit logs provide a wealth of information on the operations, governance, and security of assets and resources. As the complexity of the workloads increases, so does the volume of audit logs being generated. It becomes increasingly difficult for organizations to analyze and understand what is happening in […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. You have come up with an exciting hypothesis, and now you are keen to find and analyze as much data as possible to prove (or refute) it. There are many datasets that might be applicable, but they have been created […]

Jose Kunnackal is a Senior Product Manager for Amazon Quicksight This blog post has been translated into Japanese. In November 2016, we launched Amazon QuickSight, a cloud-powered, business analytics service that lets you quickly and easily visualize your data. QuickSight uses SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-Memory Calculation Engine), a fully managed data store that enables blazing […]