AWS Big Data Blog

We are excited to announce the General Availability of AWS Glue Data Quality. Our journey started by working backward from our customers who create, manage, and operate data lakes and data warehouses for analytics and machine learning. To make confident business decisions, the underlying data needs to be accurate and recent. Otherwise, data consumers lose […]

AWS Glue Data Quality allows you to measure and monitor the quality of data in your data repositories. It’s important for business users to be able to see quality scores and metrics to make confident business decisions and debug data quality issues. AWS Glue Data Quality generates a substantial amount of operational runtime information during […]

Alerts and notifications play a crucial role in maintaining data quality because they facilitate prompt and efficient responses to any data quality issues that may arise within a dataset. By establishing and configuring alerts and notifications, you can actively monitor data quality and receive timely alerts when data quality issues are identified. This proactive approach […]

Data is the lifeblood of modern businesses. In today’s data-driven world, companies rely on data to make informed decisions, gain a competitive edge, and provide exceptional customer experiences. However, not all data is created equal. Poor-quality data can lead to incorrect insights, bad decisions, and lost opportunities. AWS Glue Data Quality measures and monitors the […]

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. You can use AWS Glue to create, run, and monitor data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipelines and catalog your assets across multiple data stores. Hundreds of […]

In the first post of the series, we described some core concepts of Apache Kafka cluster sizing, the best practices for optimizing the performance, and the cost of your Kafka workload. This post explains how the underlying infrastructure affects Kafka performance when you use Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) tiered storage. We […]

This is a guest blog post by Mira Daniels and Sean Whitfield from SumUp. SumUp is a leading global financial technology company driven by the purpose of leveling the playing field for small businesses. Founded in 2012, SumUp is the financial partner for more than 4 million small merchants in over 35 markets worldwide, helping […]

Today, AWS is announcing the availability of in-place version upgrades for Amazon Managed Workflow for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA). This enhancement allows you to seamlessly upgrade your existing Apache Airflow version 2.x environments to newer available versions while retaining the workflow run history and environment configurations. You can now take advantage of the latest capabilities […]

September 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with a new dataset and related code blocks and images. AWS SDK for pandas is a popular Python library among data scientists, data engineers, and developers. It simplifies interaction between AWS data and analytics services and pandas DataFrames. It allows easy integration and data movement between 22 […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, both within QuickSight and embedded in your software as a service (SaaS) applications. QuickSight Enterprise edition started supporting nested conditions within row-level security […]