AWS Big Data Blog

An event-driven architecture is a software design pattern in which decoupled applications can asynchronously publish and subscribe to events via an event broker. By promoting loose coupling between components of a system, an event-driven architecture leads to greater agility and can enable components in the system to scale independently and fail without impacting other services. […]

In a data warehouse, a dimension is a structure that categorizes facts and measures in order to enable users to answer business questions. To illustrate an example, in a typical sales domain, customer, time or product are dimensions and sales transactions is a fact. Attributes within the dimension can change over time—a customer can change […]

Data lakes have come a long way, and there’s been tremendous innovation in this space. Today’s modern data lakes are cloud native, work with multiple data types, and make this data easily available to diverse stakeholders across the business. As time has gone by, data lakes have grown significantly and have evolved to data meshes […]

Deep Pool Financial Solutions, an investor servicing and compliance solutions supplier, was looking to build key performance indicators to track its software tests, failures, and successful fixes to pinpoint the specific areas for improvement in its client software. Deep Pool was unable to access the large amounts of data that its project management software provided, […]

This is a guest post written by Ahmed Saef Zamzam and Geetha Anne from Confluent. Businesses are using real-time data streams to gain insights into their company’s performance and make informed, data-driven decisions faster. As real-time data has become essential for businesses, a growing number of companies are adapting their data strategy to focus on […]

Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it simple to run and scale analytics without having to manage your data warehouse infrastructure. Developers, data scientists, and analysts can work across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes to build reporting and dashboarding applications, perform real-time analytics, share and collaborate on data, and even build and train machine learning (ML) […]

We recently announced support for AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control policies in Amazon Athena queries for data stored in any supported file format using table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi and Apache Hive. AWS Lake Formation allows you to define and enforce database, table, and column-level access policies to query Iceberg tables […]

Amazon QuickSight is cloud-native, scalable business intelligence (BI) service that supports identity federation. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows organizations to use the identities managed in their enterprise identity provider (IdP) and federate single sign-on (SSO) to QuickSight. As more organizations are building centralized user identity stores with all their applications, including on-premises apps, […]

AWS Payments is part of the AWS Commerce Platform (CP) organization that owns the customer experience of paying AWS invoices. It helps AWS customers manage their payment methods and payment preferences, and helps customers make self-service payments to AWS. The Machine Learning, Data and Analytics (MLDA) team at AWS Payments enables data-driven decision-making across payments […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. This post was co-written by Mahesh Pasupuleti and Gaurav Shah from Poshmark. Poshmark is a leading social marketplace for new and secondhand styles for women, men, kids, […]