AWS Big Data Blog

This is a guest post by Jeff Smith, Data Engineer at Intent Media. Intent Media, in their own words: “Intent Media operates a platform for advertising on commerce sites.  We help online travel companies optimize revenue on their websites and apps through sophisticated data science capabilities. On the data team at Intent Media, we are […]

Guy Ernest is a Solutions Architect with AWS This post builds on Guy’s earlier posts Building a Numeric Regression Model with Amazon Machine Learning and Building a Multi-Class ML Model with Amazon Machine Learning. Many decisions in life are binary, answered either Yes or No. Many business problems also have binary answers. For example: “Is […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Sr. Manager for AWS Solutions Architecture AWS offers a number of events during the year such as our annual AWS re:Invent conference, the AWS Summit series, the AWS Pop-up Loft, and a variety of roadshows. All of these provide opportunities for AWS customers to attend talks focused on big data and […]

Hernan Vivani is a Big Data Support Engineer for Amazon Web Services A previous post showed you how to get started with Elasticsearch and Kibana on Amazon EMR. In that post, we installed Elasticsearch and Kibana on an Amazon EMR cluster using bootstrap actions. This post shows you how to build a simple application with […]

Guy Ernest is a Solutions Architect with AWS This post builds on our earlier post Building a Numeric Regression Model with Amazon Machine Learning. We often need to assign an object (product, article, or customer) to its class (product category, article topic or type, or customer segment). For example, which category of products is most […]

Chris Keyser is a Solutions Architect for AWS Many organizations implement star and snowflake schema data warehouse designs and many BI tools are optimized to work with dimensions, facts, and measure groups. Customers have moved data warehouses of all types to Amazon Redshift with great success. The Amazon Redshift team has released support for interleaved […]

February 2023 Update: Console access to the AWS Data Pipeline service will be removed on April 30, 2023. On this date, you will no longer be able to access AWS Data Pipeline though the console. You will continue to have access to AWS Data Pipeline through the command line interface and API. Please note that […]

Guy Ernest is a Solutions Architect with AWS We need to predict future values in our businesses. These predictions are important for better planning of resource allocation and making other business decisions. Often, we settle for a simplified heuristic of average values from the past and some change assumption because more accurate alternatives are too […]

Daniel Garrison is a Big Data Support Engineer for Amazon Web Services In Part 1 you learned how Amazon EMR uses Amazon VPC DNS hostname and DHCP settings to satisfy the Hadoop requirements. Because it’s common to change the domain name setting in your DHCP options set to a custom internal domain name, this post […]

This is a guest post by Nate Sammons, a Principal Architect for Nasdaq The Nasdaq group of companies operates financial exchanges around the world and processes large volumes of data every day. We run a wide variety of analytic and surveillance systems, all of which require access to essentially the same data sets. The Nasdaq […]