AWS Big Data Blog

This is a guest post by Seth Fitzsimmons, member of the 2017 OpenStreetMap US board of directors. Seth works with clients including the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Mapzen, the American Red Cross, and World Bank to craft innovative geospatial solutions. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, editable map of the world, created and maintained by volunteers and […]

Sometimes, data to be analyzed is spread across buckets owned by different accounts. In order to ensure data security, appropriate credentials management needs to be in place. This is especially true for large enterprises storing data in different Amazon S3 buckets for different departments. For example, a customer service department may need access to data […]

Another month of big data solutions on the Big Data Blog. Please take a look at our summaries below and learn, comment, and share. Thank you for reading! Analyze Security, Compliance, and Operational Activity Using AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Athena In this blog post, walk through how to set up and use the recently released […]

Today I’m excited to share with you a number of exciting new features and enhancements in Amazon QuickSight. You can now create key performance indicator (KPI) charts, define custom ranges when importing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, export data to comma separated value (CSV) format, and create aggregate filters for SPICE data sets. In the Enterprise Edition, […]

Want to change the world with Big Data and Analytics? Come join us on the Amazon EMR team in Amazon Web Services! Meet the Amazon EMR team this Friday April 7th from 5:00 – 7:30 PM at Michael’s at Shoreline in Mountain View. We’ll feature short tech talks by EMR leadership who will talk about the past, […]

Customers with strict compliance or data security requirements often require data to be encrypted at all times, including at rest or in transit within the AWS cloud. This post shows you how to build a real-time streaming application using Kinesis in which your records are encrypted while at rest or in transit. Amazon Kinesis overview […]

The AWS Knowledge Center answers the questions we receive most frequently from AWS customers. It is a resource for you that is distinct from AWS Documentation, the AWS Discussion Forums, and the AWS Support Center. It covers questions from across every AWS service. Specific big data services covered on the Knowledge Center include Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, […]

This blog post has been translated into Japanese.  Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Athena is easy to use. Simply […]

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 […]