AWS Big Data Blog

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. In this two-part series, we discuss how to attribute Amazon Redshift costs at the user and group level. When using Amazon Redshift, you can […]

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose provides a convenient way to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. It can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, generic HTTP endpoints, and service providers like Datadog, New Relic, MongoDB, and Splunk. It […]

This is a guest blog post co-written by Leonardo Pêpe, a Data Engineer at MOIA. MOIA is an independent company of the Volkswagen Group with locations in Berlin and Hamburg, and operates its own ride pooling services in Hamburg and Hanover. The company was founded in 2016 and develops mobility services independently or in partnership […]

One of the key phases of a machine learning (ML) workflow is data preprocessing, which involves cleaning, exploring, and transforming the data. AWS Glue DataBrew, announced in AWS re:Invent 2020, is a visual data preparation tool that enables you to develop common data preparation steps without having to write any code or installation. In this […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that enables you to analyze your data at scale. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data to power their analytical workloads. The Amazon Redshift Data API is an Amazon Redshift feature that simplifies access to your […]

Companies use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for its flexibility, durability, scalability, and ability to perform many things besides storing data. This has led to an exponential rise in the usage of S3 buckets across numerous AWS Regions, across tens or even hundreds of AWS accounts. To optimize costs and analyze security posture, Amazon […]

DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations. It aims to shorten the systems development lifecycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. Similarly, BIOps (business intelligence and IT operations) can help your Amazon QuickSight admin team automate assets migration and version control. Your team can design the migration […]

This is a guest post co-written by Julien DeFrance of Tophatter and Jordan Myers of Etleap. Tophatter is a mobile discovery marketplace that hosts live auctions for products spanning every major category. Etleap, an AWS Advanced Tier Data & Analytics partner, is an extract, transform, load, and transform (ETLT) service built for AWS. As a […]

Customers today want to focus more on their core business model and less on the underlying infrastructure and operational burden. As customers migrate to the AWS Cloud, they’re realizing the benefits of being able to innovate faster on their own applications by relying on AWS to handle big data platforms, operations, and automation. Many of […]

Increasingly, a business’s success depends on its agility in transforming data into actionable insights, which requires efficient and automated data processes. In the previous post – Build a SQL-based ETL pipeline with Apache Spark on Amazon EKS, we described a common productivity issue in a modern data architecture. To address the challenge, we demonstrated how to utilize a declarative approach as the key enabler to improve efficiency, which resulted in a faster time to value for businesses. Generally speaking, managing applications declaratively in Kubernetes is a widely adopted best practice. You can use the same approach to build and deploy Spark applications with open-source or in-house build frameworks to achieve the same productivity goal.