AWS Big Data Blog

Lots for big data enthusiasts in December on the AWS Big Data Blog. Take a look! Top 10 Performance Tuning Techniques for Amazon Redshift “This post takes you through the most common issues that customers find as they adopt Amazon Redshift, and gives you concrete guidance on how to address each.” Migrating Metadata when Encrypting […]

Bob Strahan is a senior consultant with AWS Professional Services Have you ever wanted to split your database load across multiple servers or clusters without impacting the configuration or code of your client applications? Or perhaps you have wished for a way to intercept and modify application queries, so that you can make them use […]

Ben Snively is a Solutions Architect with AWS Private subnets allow you to limit access to deployed components, and to control security and routing of the system. You can also use a private subnet to connect an on-premises local network to AWS through a VPN or AWS Direct Connect.  Amazon EMR allows customers to launch […]

At AWS re:Invent 2017, we announced the preview of Amazon Neptune, a fast and reliable graph database built for the cloud. Neptune is fully managed and highly available, and it includes read replicas, point-in-time recovery, and continuous backups to Amazon S3. If you are about to build an application yourself and need a graph database, […]

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS Zach Christopherson, an Amazon Redshift Database Engineer, contributed to this post Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte scale, massively parallel data warehouse that offers simple operations and high performance. Customers use Amazon Redshift for everything from accelerating existing database environments that are struggling to […]

John Loughlin is a Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services A customer came to us asking for help expanding and modifying their Amazon Redshift cluster. In the course of responding to their request, we made use of several tools available in the AWSLabs GitHub repository. What follows is an account of how you can use […]

Michael Stroh is Communications Manager for AWS Training & Certification AWS offers a number of in-depth technical training courses, which we’re regularly updating in response to student feedback and changes to the AWS platform. Today I want to tell you about some exciting changes to Big Data on AWS, our most comprehensive training course on […]

Assaf Mentzer is a Senior Consultant for AWS Professional Services In the spirit of the U.S presidential election of 2016, in this post I use Twitter public streams to analyze the candidates’ performance, both Republican and Democrat, in a near real-time fashion. I show you how to integrate AWS managed services—Amazon Kinesis Firehose, AWS Lambda […]

Guy Ernest is a Solutions Architect with AWS Many developers want to implement the famous Amazon model that was used to power the “People who bought this also bought these items” feature on Amazon.com. This model is based on a method called Collaborative Filtering. It takes items such as movies, books, and products that were […]

Prahlad Rao is a Solutions Architect wih AWS It is important to not only be able to stream and ingest terabytes of data at scale, but to quickly get insights and visualize data using available tools and technologies. The Amazon Kinesis platform of managed services enables continuous capture and stores terabytes of data per hour from […]