AWS Big Data Blog

Introducing AWS Glue crawlers using AWS Lake Formation permission management

Data lakes provide a centralized repository that consolidates your data at scale and makes it available for different kinds of analytics. AWS Glue crawlers are a popular way to scan data in a data lake, classify it, extract schema information from it, and store the metadata automatically in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. AWS Lake […]

Configure ADFS Identity Federation with Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition can integrate with your existing Microsoft Active Directory (AD), providing federated access using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to dashboards. Using existing identities from Active Directory eliminates the need to create and manage separate user identities in AWS Identity Access Management (IAM). Federated users assume an IAM role when access is requested through an […]

How Vanguard made their technology platform resilient and efficient by building cross-Region replication for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

This is a guest post co-written with Raghu Boppanna from Vanguard.  At Vanguard, the Enterprise Advice line of business improves investor outcomes through digital access to superior, personalized, and affordable financial advice. They made it possible, in part, by driving economies of scale across the globe for investors with a highly resilient and efficient technical […]

Control access to Amazon OpenSearch Service Dashboards with attribute-based role mappings

Federated users of Amazon OpenSearch Service often need access to OpenSearch Dashboards with roles based on their user profiles. OpenSearch Service fine-grained access control maps authenticated users to OpenSearch Search roles and then evaluates permissions to determine how to handle the user’s actions. However, when an enterprise-wide identity provider (IdP) manages the users, the mapping […]

How Ruparupa gained updated insights with an Amazon S3 data lake, AWS Glue, Apache Hudi, and Amazon QuickSight

This post is co-written with Olivia Michele and Dariswan Janweri P. at Ruparupa. Ruparupa was built by PT. Omni Digitama Internusa with the vision to cultivate synergy and create a seamless digital ecosystem within Kawan Lama Group that touches and enhances the lives of many. Ruparupa is the first digital platform built by Kawan Lama […]

A hybrid approach in healthcare data warehousing with Amazon Redshift

Data warehouses play a vital role in healthcare decision-making and serve as a repository of historical data. A healthcare data warehouse can be a single source of truth for clinical quality control systems. Data warehouses are mostly built using the dimensional model approach, which has consistently met business needs. Loading complex multi-point datasets into a […]

Build a data storytelling application with Amazon Redshift Serverless and Toucan

This post was co-written with Django Bouchez, Solution Engineer at Toucan. Business intelligence (BI) with dashboards, reports, and analytics remains one of the most popular use cases for data and analytics. It provides business analysts and managers with a visualization of the business’s past and current state, helping leaders make strategic decisions that dictate the […]

How SafeGraph built a reliable, efficient, and user-friendly Apache Spark platform with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS

This is a guest post by Nan Zhu, Tech Lead Manager, SafeGraph, and Dave Thibault, Sr. Solutions Architect – AWS SafeGraph is a geospatial data company that curates over 41 million global points of interest (POIs) with detailed attributes, such as brand affiliation, advanced category tagging, and open hours, as well as how people interact […]

Automate deployment of an Amazon QuickSight analysis connecting to an Amazon Redshift data warehouse with an AWS CloudFormation template

Amazon Redshift is the most widely used data warehouse in the cloud, best suited for analyzing exabytes of data and running complex analytical queries. Amazon QuickSight is a fast business analytics service to build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. QuickSight provides easy integration with Amazon Redshift, providing […]

Achieve up to 27% better price-performance for Spark workloads with AWS Graviton2 on Amazon EMR Serverless

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple to run applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Hive without configuring, managing, or scaling clusters. At AWS re:Invent 2022, we announced support for running serverless Spark and Hive workloads with AWS Graviton2 (Arm64) on Amazon EMR Serverless. […]