AWS Big Data Blog

Calculated fields, level-aware aggregations, and evaluation order in Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone. QuickSight has carefully designed concepts and features that enable analysis builders, such as QuickSight authors, to design content-rich, interactive, and dynamic dashboards to share with dashboard viewers. As authors build an analysis, QuickSight transforms, filters, and […]

Access Amazon Location Service from Amazon Redshift

Organizations typically store business and customer data in databases like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Redshift, and often want to enrich this data by integrating with external services. One such enrichment is to add spatial attributes such as location coordinates for an address. With the introduction of Amazon Location Service, you now […]

Synchronize and control your Amazon Redshift clusters maintenance windows

Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse that can expand to exabyte-scale. Today, tens of thousands of AWS customers (including NTT DOCOMO, Finra, and Johnson & Johnson) use Amazon Redshift to run mission-critical business intelligence dashboards, analyze real-time streaming data, and run predictive analytics jobs. Amazon Redshift powers analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and […]

Accelerate your data warehouse migration to Amazon Redshift – Part 2

This is the second post in a multi-part series. We’re excited to shared dozens of new features to automate your schema conversion; preserve your investment in existing scripts, reports, and applications; accelerate query performance; and potentially reduce your overall cost to migrate to Amazon Redshift. Check out all posts in this series: Accelerate your data […]

Establish private connectivity between Amazon QuickSight and Snowflake using AWS PrivateLink

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud. QuickSight lets you easily create and publish interactive BI dashboards that include Machine Learning-powered insights. QuickSight dashboards can be accessed from any device, and seamlessly embedded into your applications, portals, and websites. QuickSight offers several sources for data, […]

Secure multi-tenant data ingestion pipelines with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink

When designing multi-tenant streaming ingestion pipelines, there are myriad ways to design and build your streaming solution, each with its own set of trade-offs. The first decision you have to make is the strategy that determines how you choose to physically or logically separate one tenant’s data from another. Sharing compute and storage resources helps […]

Query a Teradata database using Amazon Athena Federated Query and join with data in your Amazon S3 data lake

If you use data lakes in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use Teradata as your transactional data store, you may need to join the data in your data lake with Teradata in the cloud, Teradata running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), or with an on-premises Teradata database, for example to build […]

Query an Apache Hudi dataset in an Amazon S3 data lake with Amazon Athena part 1: Read-optimized queries

On July 16, 2021, Amazon Athena upgraded its Apache Hudi integration with new features and support for Hudi’s latest 0.8.0 release. Hudi is an open-source storage management framework that provides incremental data processing primitives for Hadoop-compatible data lakes. This upgraded integration adds the latest community improvements to Hudi along with important new features including snapshot […]

How Jobcase is using Amazon Redshift ML to recommend job search content at scale

This post is co-written with Clay Martin and Ajay Joshi from Jobcase as the lead authors. Jobcase is an online community dedicated to empowering and advocating for the world’s workers. We’re the third-largest destination for job search in the United States, and connect millions of Jobcasers to relevant job opportunities, companies, and other resources on […]