AWS Big Data Blog

Amazon OpenSearch Service recently announced Multi-AZ with Standby, a new deployment option for managed clusters that enables 99.99% availability and consistent performance for business-critical workloads. With Multi-AZ with Standby, clusters are resilient to infrastructure failures like hardware or networking failure. This option provides improved reliability and the added benefit of simplifying cluster configuration and management […]

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) solution that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, get access to ML-enabled insights, and share visuals and dashboards with tens of thousands of internal and external users, either within QuickSight itself or embedded into any application. A write-back […]

AWS Glue Studio is a graphical interface that makes it easy to create, run, and monitor extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs in AWS Glue. It allows you to visually compose data transformation workflows using nodes that represent different data handling steps, which later are converted automatically into code to run. AWS Glue Studio recently […]

Customers of Amazon OpenSearch Service can already use Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to access OpenSearch Dashboards. This post outlines two methods by which programmatic users can now access OpenSearch using SAML identities. This applies to all identity providers (IdPs) that support SAML 2.0, including prevalent ones like Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS), Okta, AWS […]

Hundreds of thousands of customers use AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. AWS Glue for Apache Spark jobs work with your code and configuration of the number of data processing units (DPU). Each DPU provides 4 vCPU, 16 GB memory, […]

Are you looking to understand the relationships between two numerical variables? Scatter plots are a powerful visual type that allow you to identify patterns, outliers, and strength of relationships between variables. In this post, we walk you through the newly launched scatter plot features in Amazon QuickSight, which will help you take your correlation analysis […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to support MFA setup instructions. Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it easy to run and scale analytics in seconds without the need to set up and manage data warehouse clusters. With Redshift Serverless, users such as data analysts, developers, business professionals, and data scientists can get insights from […]

This post is a guest post co-written with SeonJeong Lee, JaeRyun Yim, and HyeonSeok Yang from Encored Technologies. Encored Technologies (Encored) is an energy IT company in Korea that helps their customers generate higher revenue and reduce operational costs in renewable energy industries by providing various AI-based solutions. Encored develops machine learning (ML) applications predicting […]

Welcome to the era of data. The sheer volume of data captured daily continues to grow, calling for platforms and solutions to evolve. Services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) offer a scalable solution that adapts yet remains cost-effective for growing datasets. The Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) uses the capabilities of Amazon […]

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is a deployment option offered by Amazon EMR that enables you to run Apache Spark applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in a cost-effective manner. It uses the EMR runtime for Apache Spark to increase performance so that your jobs run faster and cost less. Apache Spark allows […]