AWS Big Data Blog

This is a guest post by Kyle Porter, a Sales Engineer at Simba Technologies. Jon Einkauf, a Senior Product Manager for Amazon Elastic MapReduce and AWS Senior Technical Writer Jeff Slone also contributed to this post. —————- Note: Ports have changed on EMR 4.x,. Before walking through this post, please consult the EMR documentation to […]

Rahul Bhartia is an AWS Solutions Architect Introduction Hadoop provides a great ecosystem of tools for extracting value from data in various formats and sizes. Originally focused on large-batch processing with tools like MapReduce, Pig and Hive, Hadoop now provides many tools for running interactive queries on your data, such as Impala, Drill, and Presto. […]

Biff Gaut is a Solutions Architect with AWS Introduction With the introduction of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) access logs, administrators have a tremendous amount of data describing all traffic through their ELB. While Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) and some partner tools are excellent solutions for ongoing, extensive analysis of this traffic, they can require […]

Steve McPherson is a Senior Manager for Amazon Elastic MapReduce Note: This post was updated 2/8/16. The Presto bootstrap action documented in the original post has been deprecated because EMR now offers a Presto-Sandbox as a full-fledged EMR application. For details, see the EMR sandbox.   Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is a fully managed Hadoop-as-a-service platform […]

James Saull is a Principal Solutions Architect with AWS There are many advantages to using multi-part, multi-instance uploads for large files. First, the throughput is improved because you can upload parts in parallel. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) can store files up to 5TB, yet a single machine with a 1Gbps interface would take […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services Introduction In the first two parts of this series we discussed two popular products–out of many possible solutions–for moving big data into the cloud: Tsunami UDP and Data Expedition’s ExpeDat S3 Gateway. Today we’ll look at another option that takes a different approach: Signiant […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services Introduction A previous blog post (Moving Big Data Into the Cloud with Tsunami UDP) discussed how Tsunami UDP is a fast and easy way to move large amounts of data to and from AWS. Specifically, we showed how you can use it to move […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services AWS Solutions Architect Leo Zhadanovsky also contributed to this post. Introduction One of the biggest challenges facing companies that want to leverage the scale and elasticity of AWS for analytics is how to move their data into the cloud. It’s increasingly common to have […]

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS Amazon Kinesis provides a scalable and highly available platform for ingesting data from thousands of clients. Once data is available on a Kinesis stream, you can build applications to process the data using the Kinesis Client Library (KCL). KCL provides a framework for managing many […]

NOTE: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service for delivering real-time streaming data to Amazon Redshift. For more information, please visit the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose documentation page, “Choosing Amazon Redshift for Your Destination.” February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New […]